Is the forum slow for anyone else on desktop?

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Often takes me longer to load a new page than to read it. At least some sort of "we are aware and working on it" response would help.
 
I feel like it slow more often than not. And I think its been that way for months.

I visits 2 other forum daily and this one is probably my favorite (topic wise) but also the most difficult to enjoy.
 
Why is it the more we complain the slower it gets? Can we go back to dial-up?
Is anybody even listening?

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I'm a member of many internet forums for many different hobbies.

But this is the only one I (for whatever reason) decided to pay money to use.

It's also the only site that is this slow. The site is often either completely down, or so slow it's unusable.

It's also the only site that won't let me bump a classified thread, and instead makes me recreate it from scratch every two weeks - which completely loses the point of threads and context - and makes maintaining a longer listing unnecessarily inconvenient.

It would be fair to say that I have regret for my membership purchase. Is a refund an option?
 
Did you look around, spend time on the site, read the rules and such before being a paying member? Also, you don’t have to pay to be here only sell. Sounds like buyers remorse to me. Honestly it’s well worth the $30 a year. Where else can you sell a knife with no fees and a large audience? Sure it’s slow at times and there are small issues but overall it’s a great site for many reasons.
 
Glad to know its not my new phone. When soooooooooooo many complain about uploading pics I always want to message em and guide em but even the basic tricks are not working for me. Wanted to double up my membership and go platinum in addition to gold but will hold off. No complaints,, Guess I could be Doug : (
(Tried uploading a pic of Dougs issues but…..it wont upload,,,,miss vb)
 
It’s becoming unusable at times, and hasn’t been this bad in the previous 14 years I’ve been coming here. I hope they get a handle on this soon. Maybe they should solicit IT input or call a vendor for help? Whatever they’re trying isn’t working, and is worsening.
 
Sbs1974 said:
Where else can you sell a knife with no fees and a large audience?
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Facebook groups. I've been having better luck there. There's no fee. And the site actually works.

Sbs1974 said:
Honestly it’s well worth the $30 a year.
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Glad it's worth it for you. But it's not to me. If a site is free, you can't complain about uptime. When you pay for it, you can.

Sbs1974 said:
Did you look around, spend time on the site, read the rules and such before being a paying member?
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I spent time here and read the rules but missed the part that threads are sorted by creation time only, and cannot be bumped. The entire appeal of selling items in a threaded forum (for me) is the ability to create a for-sale thread and have it live on until you find a buyer. That thread is the entire context of the sale - the original post, pics, videos, and any questions that were asked along the way. It doesn't need to be bumped often, but the ability to bump it occasionally with a price drop is what makes threads work so great.

On this site, you must recreate the whole thing from scratch every 2 weeks if it didn't sell. That, combined with an essentially non-working site, is a no-go for me. No thanks. I'm not paying for that when there are better functioning and more elegant to use alternatives available.
 
matto6 said:
Facebook groups. I've been having better luck there. There's no fee. And the site actually works.


Glad it's worth it for you. But it's not to me. If a site is free, you can't complain about uptime. When you pay for it, you can.


I spent time here and read the rules but missed the part that threads are sorted by creation time only, and cannot be bumped. The entire appeal of selling items in a threaded forum (for me) is the ability to create a for-sale thread and have it live on until you find a buyer. That thread is the entire context of the sale - the original post, pics, videos, and any questions that were asked along the way. It doesn't need to be bumped often, but the ability to bump it occasionally with a price drop is what makes threads work so great.

On this site, you must recreate the whole thing from scratch every 2 weeks if it didn't sell. That, combined with an essentially non-working site, is a no-go for me. No thanks. I'm not paying for that when there are better functioning and more elegant to use alternatives available.
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I haven't tried to sell anything, but can't you copy your original thread post and then paste it in your notepad? And then when you need to repost it, copy the post from your notepad and then paste it here in the new thread? That would be much faster if you can.
 
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We ran out of storage space again. It took the hosting company multiple days to get more space allocated. Then after allocation it didn't fix things so we had to reboot the server during trouble shooting. This caused errors. It appears to be fixed for now but we're still testing
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There are two threads on this subject and they should be merged. Problem is NOT fixed since your post of 11 days ago. Also, running out of storage space doesn’t just happen. There are red flags and warning signs which can preempt such severe consequences.
 
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