One minute the room is silent next minute i have 20 lines appearing in one go. Its rubbish.
I'm sure one server has been tried before with the same results as tonight... slow chat, freezing etc.
I prefer the 4 servers albeit with a 5 min delay if you got booted.
once the server is busy all the rooms are appearing too late after typing and the conversation is lost.
Entering the chatroom tonight has been difficult at times and rooms are slow to open.
This happened before when sh moved everything to one server.
Also when I type have top wait ages for it to appear in the room. :shock:
Yeah is a tad slow - was fine earlier tonight! Maybe more members on-line slows it down?
Hi Folks,
I'm afraid I have to agree with the majority of the previous remarks. Having been in the chatroom from about 9 this evening I am already tepmted not to go back due to the painfully slow speed it is running at, which makes it nigh on impossible to carry on a conversation, let alone two and a whispering conversation as well!
I welcome progress but feel from a users point of view this is a large step backwards.
Ed :borg: :doh:
If I introduced software to my clients that was as buggy and untested as SH chat I would soon be out of business.
Please stop tinkering!
The software is ok and we did run trials elsewhere before trying here, although this is the busiest place and thats one of the reasons that there are issues.
One of the reasons for doing this was because of the high number of disconnections being logged, this evening we recorded the lowest level for a long time.
The server hasn't been under too much load, sitting at about 20% with peaks at 40%, but there is an issue as the chatroom has been cycling from fast to slow, we think there's a bottleneck at network level and we have a few things that we want to investigate.
Ok have given this new format a chance but am not keen . I find it harder to find people I know , as I used to know where to expect them , and the response times are so slow.
I can see that on a weekend night the main rooms will quickly become full and virtually impossible to reenter (it was bad before but you could use take me to and would get back in after a few tries) , so it will be a case of log in early and sit in your place , using it or not.
Ok the 5 min wait may have gon but I never saw it as a major issue , and very often did not have to wait the full 5 mins when it happened.
Progress can be good guys , but when fixing problems think about the new ones you may create
Havent had any problems apart from chat being slow in rooms.
well done guys
dee
i personally like idea of one server....if you know room you want..not difficult to find....however as so many stated....the chat was very very slow...and something there does need to get tweeked. You type and its literally 2 mins before text appears on screen...makes conversation impossible.
Dean
only noticably noticed chat lag when the rooms were busy ... having come back this morning its as fast as normal so no probs here unless chat is busy ... perhaps 2 servers is the answer
I belong to a Poker site and my PC is quick, quick, quick. NO lag when playing or chatting. So I think the lag on here is on here!!
Just been into chat again and it is so slow, it becomes impossible to have a chat.
Hope they manage to fix it soon coz there's nowt on the tele tonight! :giggle:
Sam xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've just noticed another great new feature!
When you've selected a room, and clicked 'join', instead of the list going right back to the first room in the list, it now highlights your current room and puts that at the top of the viewable window. That's just brilliant! … and useful.
You clever people deserve an extra scoop of chocolate ice-cream!
:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
not working for me very well ... keep getting disconected, and rooms on list vanish wen i go into them ... il get a complex lol