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John Graham Inkson

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Same here, site will not come up and when it does still problem to move around. Reminds me of the good old days with the frustrating computer crashes and blue screens. 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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It’s taking longer to get on the site and then to move around than it was yesterday. Hopefully it will be a simple fix once the technicians get to grips with it.
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Sandra Kennedy

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I'm guessing it might be time to archive off some of the earlier postings.  When I click on the gallery, I see: "Showing 1 - 24 of 212,317" That's an awful lot of images.
Norrette Moore on 02/04/2024 08:48:59
Sounds like a very good idea, both for images and the forum.
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Bobbie Matulja

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The site was very slow to load all day yesterday - possibly down to pictures and video in the adverts?  This morning has been variable.  Sometimes quick, sometimes frustratingly slow - but it looks as if the technical team are working on it.
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Tony Auffret

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POL Patience On Line.....I  think the fact that the Forum home page is particularly slow to load, and threads like this, which have are devoid of posted paintings and with little by way of adverts, can be excruciatingly slow to load suggests this is not a problem with the content.  At least www. no longer stands for world wide wait, at least not on most sites. PS Curiously upload speeds of posts like this are much faster than download speeds.  That's odd.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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The down side of not being able to access the gallery or forum easily is that we miss out on some good posts. I’ve tried to keep up with the gallery but it get frustrated when it keeps me from moving on quick enough, so apologies to anyone who’s work I normally comment on for not doing so for the past week . Hopefully when it’s operating properly I can go back a catch up with the excellent artwork I’ve missed out . 

Tessa Gwynne

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I wonder if it would be an idea to remove posts from people who have not uploaded any work for the last so many years? There seem to be quite a few who used to be regular but are no longer active for whatever reason, and this would clear space if that is the problem. If anyone complained or wished to return, then that obviously could be arranged. The site is just becoming tedious to use.
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Tony Auffret

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Ouch!
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Martin Cooke

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I don't think the issue is the volume of images. I manage a website with 20G of data split across nearly 100k files, but the speed isn't affected in any way by the amount of data. There is no intrinsic reason for a large volume site to be slow (think Google!), nor likely to be any advantage gained by deleting images or members. This is most likely something else, like using a slow hosting service or some change made to the way the database is being accessed (poorly-designed queries can be remarkably slow), although this is just pure speculation on my part.

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Tessa Gwynne

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Well you obviously know better than I do Martin.  It was just a thought, and I didn't know if it made sense or would help.

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Alan Bickley

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I’ll be speaking with Dawn on Monday! She’ll have a word with the techies ant H/O and all will be sorted… it isn’t the first time, it’s a regular occurrence but we always get it sorted!

Tessa Gwynne

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Thank you Alan.
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