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Apr 2, 2004 | 6:11 pm
#421
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Los Angeles, xTWA Elite 1 and AA PLT, now AA EXP 3MM, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 283
It's fast now
It's moving at lighting speed now. Guess they got it fixed.
Apr 2, 2004 | 6:15 pm
#422
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: New York City
Programs: AA EXP, VS Silver, HH Silver
Posts: 21
Its current speed might have to do with less users being on, given that it's friday evening. Speaking of which, it's time for beer.... ^
Apr 2, 2004 | 6:21 pm
#423
Join Date: Dec 2001
Posts: 5,966
People who design web site for travelers....
... should be forced to visit all the business lounges in airports and ensure their design works with the tired and overworked computers with marginal bandwidths in these lounges.
They may be able to get the servers powerful enough to serve all the cutesies in this new format fast enough but when travelers who haunt these message boards are no longer able to download the huge page content at each click when at a lounge or on a dialup from a hotel room, then the designers have lost the plot.
Just looking at the page where I am typing this, it is almost 50k in size not including the graphics!!!!! It includes the posts in the thread below it. Why would I want to wait for the page to download the posts in the thread to reply when I am on a dialup?
Not to be overly critical of a free resource but feature creep never solved a scaling problem.
They may be able to get the servers powerful enough to serve all the cutesies in this new format fast enough but when travelers who haunt these message boards are no longer able to download the huge page content at each click when at a lounge or on a dialup from a hotel room, then the designers have lost the plot.
Just looking at the page where I am typing this, it is almost 50k in size not including the graphics!!!!! It includes the posts in the thread below it. Why would I want to wait for the page to download the posts in the thread to reply when I am on a dialup?
Not to be overly critical of a free resource but feature creep never solved a scaling problem.
Apr 2, 2004 | 6:22 pm
#424
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 340
Give it some time & hopefully it will get better both from FT getting its software act together more, and from each of us playing more with the system so that we get more used to it until it is again second nature....
Apr 2, 2004 | 6:37 pm
#425
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: DFW
Programs: AA EXP/4MM, QF PLT, Marriott PLT
Posts: 1,425
Originally Posted by venk
... should be forced to visit all the business lounges in airports and ensure their design works with the tired and overworked computers with marginal bandwidths in these lounges.
They may be able to get the servers powerful enough to serve all the cutesies in this new format fast enough but when travelers who haunt these message boards are no longer able to download the huge page content at each click when at a lounge or on a dialup from a hotel room, then the designers have lost the plot.
Just looking at the page where I am typing this, it is almost 50k in size not including the graphics!!!!! It includes the posts in the thread below it. Why would I want to wait for the page to download the posts in the thread to reply when I am on a dialup?
Not to be overly critical of a free resource but feature creep never solved a scaling problem.
They may be able to get the servers powerful enough to serve all the cutesies in this new format fast enough but when travelers who haunt these message boards are no longer able to download the huge page content at each click when at a lounge or on a dialup from a hotel room, then the designers have lost the plot.
Just looking at the page where I am typing this, it is almost 50k in size not including the graphics!!!!! It includes the posts in the thread below it. Why would I want to wait for the page to download the posts in the thread to reply when I am on a dialup?
Not to be overly critical of a free resource but feature creep never solved a scaling problem.
Apr 2, 2004 | 7:55 pm
#426
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Encino, CA USA
Programs: AA EP
Posts: 137
It seems back up to spped now. (at least for me)
Apr 2, 2004 | 8:10 pm
#427
Suspended
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Santa Monica, CA USA
Posts: 92
It seems to be getting faster. Yesterday the board was just worthless. But given time, I'm sure things will be getting eed.
Apr 3, 2004 | 7:15 am
#428
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Rolling Lakes Yacht Club
Posts: 5,208
The new format is terrible
The speed of the site seems determined by the load. At odd hours it is ok, but still nowhere near as good as the old front end. During the day, it is useless.
It is frustrating when you cannot post a reply.
I also receive many errors and timeouts. ^_ ^_
I think they paved paradise and put up a parking lot
It is frustrating when you cannot post a reply.
I also receive many errors and timeouts. ^_ ^_ I think they paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Apr 3, 2004 | 7:56 am
#429
Suspended
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Siesta Key
Programs: AA EXP-1.6MM, Hilton Diamond, ManU & Chicago Bears #1 Fan
Posts: 9,697
Originally Posted by DataPlumber
The speed of the site seems determined by the load. At odd hours it is ok, but still nowhere near as good as the old front end. During the day, it is useless.
It is frustrating when you cannot post a reply. I also receive many errors and timeouts. ^_ ^_
I think they paved paradise and put up a parking lot
It is frustrating when you cannot post a reply.
I also receive many errors and timeouts. ^_ ^_ I think they paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Apr 3, 2004 | 8:52 am
#430
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Cambridge
Posts: 63,783
Still too slow, besides the fact that I can't seem to access the site using Netscape 7.0
Apr 3, 2004 | 11:42 am
#431
Suspended
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Washington DC
Programs: Delta Diamond, United IK, AA LifPLT, Hyatt Globalist, IHG PLT AMB, SPG Gold, Marriott Gold, Hilton G
Posts: 1,169
The new format sucks and it is way too slow. I think FT will loose a lot of people. They should have left it alone. Too bad. But for me I find myself moving away from FT now.
Apr 3, 2004 | 12:30 pm
#432
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: PIT/DFW/MEL; AA Exec. Platinum & 4MM, QF WP
Posts: 7,689
Originally Posted by SethLevy
The new format sucks and it is way too slow. I think FT will loose a lot of people. They should have left it alone. Too bad. But for me I find myself moving away from FT now.
the new regime is harder to navigate, too, whilst we're at it. hard to hop from one forum to another-- you're forced to traverse menus for it.
Apr 3, 2004 | 12:32 pm
#433
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: PIT/DFW/MEL; AA Exec. Platinum & 4MM, QF WP
Posts: 7,689
Originally Posted by SethLevy
The new format sucks and it is way too slow. I think FT will loose a lot of people. They should have left it alone. Too bad. But for me I find myself moving away from FT now.
the new regime is harder to navigate, too, whilst we're at it. hard to hop from one forum to another-- you're forced to traverse menus for it.
Apr 3, 2004 | 12:42 pm
#434
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Caribbean
Programs: AA Executive Platinum, US Air Silver Preferred, BA ExecSilver
Posts: 758
Originally Posted by Jim90068
I know a lot of expense has probably gone into the new format, I find it to to be way too slow to load even with high speed connections. 
I much prefer the old flyer talk forums!
I much prefer the old flyer talk forums!
Apr 3, 2004 | 12:46 pm
#435
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Francisco, CA
Programs: AA 2 Million Miler Platinum for Life, Hyatt Diamond, SPG Plat, Hilton Gold, Marriot Gold
Posts: 20
A Llittle Patience and a Littlle Loyallity May be in Order Here
or actually a BUNCH of patience and a BUNCH of loyalty almost certainly is in order here.
I mean, gheeessus. We all know Randy does whatever he can to keep this whole thing together. Its not like he's some [crooked] airline exec making millions. He's the fairest community leader I've come across as an entrepreneur and executive who studies them.
And as far as the transition is concerned, these are not easy things to accomplish. Randy is right, eBay, Amazon, etc...all had servers crash and growing pains...and they spent HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of dollars. I guarantee you Randy found some way to give us upgrades, on a shoestring, so he doesn't have to raise our membership/magazine costs.
So, if you're gonna leave the day or two after a major upgrade, good riddance, dude..."we ain't want yas around here anyway" as they say...so beat it.
Teddy
I mean, gheeessus. We all know Randy does whatever he can to keep this whole thing together. Its not like he's some [crooked] airline exec making millions. He's the fairest community leader I've come across as an entrepreneur and executive who studies them.
And as far as the transition is concerned, these are not easy things to accomplish. Randy is right, eBay, Amazon, etc...all had servers crash and growing pains...and they spent HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of dollars. I guarantee you Randy found some way to give us upgrades, on a shoestring, so he doesn't have to raise our membership/magazine costs.
So, if you're gonna leave the day or two after a major upgrade, good riddance, dude..."we ain't want yas around here anyway" as they say...so beat it.
Teddy