Hello: 
I am a newbie for Reallusion's animation world. I tried to learn things from the forum, but I found that the speed of the forum is very slow. For example, when I try to post this new topic, it takes 7 seconds to respond. Almost every page I click, it was not responsive for 5 seconds. The webpage download at my place is pretty fast. So I guess it might be the server's bandwidth issue. Do other members feel the same? 
AX

My internet service is absolutely awful, but I can't say I have experienced the problems you describe and in all the years I have been on this forum, I can't recall similar comments from anyone else. It sounds like the issue may be in your setup or service provider. Sorry can't be more helpful, good luck with resolving it.
Cheers,
Tony

I have fast internet (fastest money can buy) and, yes, this forum is slow.  It's not as slow for me as you describe, but compared to my own forum and any others I frequent, it's at least twice as slow (and sometimes MUCH slower).

Don't know what the issue is, though -- might not be a server problem but rather the software used.  Hard to say.

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Although the forum has had issues from time-to-time, generally speaking I find the forum performance to be fine.

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We have had occasional server problems with the forum, but it's OK now.

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I find the time to load a new post/page varies mostly from bad to awful and has for a long time - and I have a very, very fast cable connection here at home in the UK.  It's probably 'uncommon' that I find forum browsing snappy.

I've just done some simple testing (I won't bore you with the methodology just now) and found that a page I'd opened earlier and was reopening initially took about ten seconds to reload/reopen that same page (which is extreme, even for my observations).  Then, when repeated again, two seconds, then four seconds, then four seconds again.  (This was a page with a single text-only post, ie no additional embedded graphics from the poster.)

To be fair, sometimes new posts/pages do load fast - but there is definitely huge room for improvement in the  forum server's responsiveness.

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Yes, the forum is slow, server response time is an issue, html + js can be compressed & I'm not sure if a caching service is being used, I don't think so.

Agreed. It’s so painfully slow. On my iPhone and MacBook Pro with super fast fibre broadband 40mb.

I rarely use this forum due to the painfully slow speed and end up getting all my info from YouTube.

Shame. I have to say it but slow server or forum software tends to make the company appear seem somewhat amateurish and give a bad impression.

They use third-party software that is used elsewhere as well:

Powered by InstantForum 2014-1 Final © 2018
Execution: 0.000. 4 queries. Compression Enabled.

So it may be a server problem. That has happened before.

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For some reason, the forum does seem slower than usual. We have the fastest connection ever here, so I suppose their membership is growing faster than their service?  ~V~

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