Site extremely laggy, high load times on iPad

[Strontium]

I use my iPad to browse the internet most of the time. Lately, WtW has been loading super slow and has been pretty laggy when I try to open my notifications. It isn't like this on my laptop.
I have a theory that it's due to my iPad running an old OS. But I was curious if anyone else has been experiencing this too.

(side note, but Bulbapedia is also super buggy - not letting me search for anything, preventing me from opening pages from indexes, and loading without images. Again, might be due to the OS.)

 

[Miragecoordinator]

My Windows 10 laptop has been experiencing similar issues as well. It'll load slow and sometimes I'll get a "503 service unavailable" error.

 

[Bancho]

I've tried using Bulbapedia on my phone and that has been a mess for me as well. I have a very modern phone too. I haven't used Bulbapedia in a long time so idk if this is a recent issue? I also haven't tried Bulbapedia on a browser either

 

[TMS]

I have the same issue on my laptop, so it probably has more to do with a strain on the site than your device.

 

[DPTronazel]

(side note, but Bulbapedia is also super buggy - not letting me search for anything, preventing me from opening pages from indexes, and loading without images. Again, might be due to the OS.)

I've tried using Bulbapedia on my phone and that has been a mess for me as well. I have a very modern phone too. I haven't used Bulbapedia in a long time so idk if this is a recent issue? I also haven't tried Bulbapedia on a browser either

I'm suffering from this too, despite my computer runs well. I've heard this is affecting everyone who visits there, maybe their servers need some fixing?

 

[Sarabande__]

I thought this was just happening to me lol.

 

[Illu]

It's like that on every device for me, but more so on my Ipad and Bluestacks. I chalked it up to the forum being old, but the thing about the servers makes a lot of sense.

 

[AquaKai]

Yeah, it happened to me too, it must be something server-side for WtW, since now and then it gives the "service unavailable" error (it happened some minutes ago, for example). It's been this way for at least a week (probably more).
The most annoying part is when you want to open the notification or the profile menus and it just lags indefinitely. Or when you click on "post reply" button and it does nothing (hoping it won't happen now xD).
Edit: aaaand it happened.

 

[Noni]

For me it can make the forum pretty much unusable at times. Is tough.

 

[Notus]

Well, put one more on the having issues counter.

 

[Strontium]

I had no idea so many other people were having this issue! It actually reached my laptop last night - I couldn’t even load the site to respond to this thread. Is there anything that can be done?

 

[Bancho]

I've been wondering if it's just a simple traffic issue or something to do with the XenForo platform that I think the forum is based on?

 

[Muur]

This site every day takes millions of years to load on both laptop and mobile. Only this site and bulbapedia as previously mentioned.

 

[Hydranoid413]

I have noticed WtW does take longer to load than other websites

 

[MasterOfTartarus]

same problem, takes forever to load on my PC, quoting and replying also takes forever.

 

[CloneWarrior]

So do any of the tech people here know what's up?

 

[MarcFBR]

Removed unwelcome, and unhelpful, comments.

Software and potentially hardware issues that are being looked at as we have time, combined with higher than normal traffic at times exacerbating the problem.

No one else who has any understanding of it past me is going to comment until it's either fixed, or until we're sure it's on the correct overall end result and testing will be, outside of basic tests and tweaks.