(We removed the Chat Feature until we can integrate it onto the site without causing Page Loading time delays and any user errors! I'm going to work with Ning tomorrow afternoon on trying to fix the chat so that it doesn't affect any of our users. If that doesn't work we can either wait 1-3 Months until Ning 3.0 is available to us or create an IRC)
We are trying to integrate a chat room feature without slowing down the page loading times on DIYDrones.com and we need your feedback and help.
What we need from the community:
- Do you like or dislike the chat feature? (Please explain why)
- Does it slow down your page loading times and alter your overall user experience on DIYDrones?
- Is this something you would like to see be perminent on DIYDrones.com?
- Do you have any suggestions on how to improve it?
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Also (no related to the chat), POST to incrementViewCount is very slow.
And one of the slowest request is to fastbutton. Thankfully it's not slowbutton! ;-)
These could be checked too.
@Joshua
Like many people here I browse with my Iphone and use a PC/ Laptop for more serious stuff or for posts.
The chat screws up the Iphone and the tool bar still follows the cursur which is annoying!
What also happened is that if I opened an email from a contact and then tried to reply I found I could compose the message BUT NOT SEND IT, This is not acceptable. the send button simply flashes briefly and then ... nothing.
I for one am OK with this Chat service being stopped as I see many more negative reasons to stop it than positive reasons to keep it.
Sorry Joshua, nothing personal, I know you tried hard to make it work well, good luck with getting it fixed.
Thomas if you used the chat over the weekend most of the talk was just small talk but it was very active and most users found that they enjoyed being able to have a nice chat for a while about NASA, Space, Etc. Also many newbies to the hobby said they found it useful because they could ask questions in their that they didn't know for sure what the correct terminologies are for certain things and said that they didn't want to post in forums asking such simple questions like correct terminology for things and said they found themselves more comfortable with asking simple questions in the chat.
Yeah, just wanted to add yesterday but was unable to. On mobile (Android, Dolphin) there was no way to switch the page of the comments or add a reply. The page was loading "forever".
Good it's off, thanks :)
@Everyone, I took the chat completely off of the site and will contact Ning by phone in morning to see if we can get the chat up and running smoothly for all users.
I accept that I am weird, so I make no excuses for it. 8-)
I read the forum mostly from my iPhone with Safari, although I have been trying Chrome since the Chat was enabled. The mobile version doesn't provide the flow that I like, so I read in the full Desktop View.
Since the Chat was enabled, the forum is almost unreadable. Pages take forever to completely load, and they are frozen until they do. I can't even scroll or zoom until the page fully loads. I have noticed that the page unfreezes when the Conversations list completes its' count. Safari or Chrome, the same behavior. Agghhh !!!
It has been impossible to get to the Settings on my iPhone, I just found it on the main page on my laptop after logging out and back in again to the forum. Now that I have disconnected from the Chat, all is well again on the iPhone. Yeah !!!
Yeah if I disconnect from chat it runs normally. In IE10 it even shows a message at the bottom sometimes that says the page is loading unusually slow do to a script running, sort of message.
The annoying part is the entire page loads and then locks up for 5-10 seconds.. so you can see content but you can't interact with the page at all.. like clicking on the link in my email .. I couldn't click on this chat box until some random thing got done in the background... which is true in IE10 and Chrome that I am using.
@LanMark, Once you disconnected from the chat did the load times stay slow or go back to normal?
@Dwgsparky, I can remove the chat off the homepage if that would fix the loading time on the main page. Only problem is if I do that then the chat bar on the bottom right will be their while on the homepage.
Hi Joshua
No, the main page is a little slow to load but I see no problems after that, what is strange is that I dont see the connect/disconnect bar at all on the iphone, but on my desktop I see it lurking in the bottom right corner. Thats Ok as long as it stays there out of the way. dont mind it being missing on the Iphone as there is not much real estate to start with.
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