State updates lagging

Anyone else notice lagging state updates (unread topics, notification indicators) on the site recently? At least since IFComp started, possibly a couple of weeks longer. Not a big deal, just caught my eye.

It’s seemed that way for me a bit, but 1) that might be confirmation bias and 2) there are a few confounders here.

  1. with IFComp I may be more likely to leave 2 windows open by mistake
  2. there might be more traffic causing this slowdown, which would be a nice tradeoff for me. (Though if the slowdown is unrelated and gets fixed anyway, yay for that!)

It usually does that for me if there’s a lot of traffic… any time the site is bad enough that I see the messages about saving resources by rendering it as if you’re logged out, or straight up sorry, too busy, try again later, I will also have noticed the lagging status updates leading up to that…

So I assume when I see it at other times, it’s also server load? That would make sense with IFComp going on.

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We are definitely experiencing heavier traffic as is natural during IFComp.

Screenshot 2024-09-07 at 9.36.52 PM

If you leave a tab open with the forum on a regular basis, you might want to hit the refresh button or close and re-open.

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