Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Slow Forum Performance

Yesterday was unbearable, wasn't it!? I had to give up yesterday evening, so I'm just catching up on what went on since.

My latest update I have is that the issues are believed to be at ubbcentral, impacting all forums powered by ubbthreads rather than anything local to here, which unfortunately means there's little to be done short of upgrading the software completely. Which obviously needs to be done, but is a bigger task than changing settings here.

Not that it can hurt to do things like restrict certain kind of bot if we can, but it's unlikely to fix everything.

On the plus side, I see our banner has finally updated!

I gave up around 1320 hrs yesterday.

The banner still say 31st August on this page.

How peculiar! It definitely says Aug 3 PC/Sep 6 PS5 for me.

PM me if that doesn't self correct within the next few hours, or if you do a full refresh of the page (sometimes I have to actually close the tab and reload the forums to get new posts showing in the Active Threads feed for some reason - other times it is fine).

I had the same issue, but once I cleared the browser cache (images) and reloaded the page, the new banner with the correct date appeared.

The forum performance is still perfect for me - fingers crossed it will stay that way.

So that is the problem!

I was wondering why i see Aug 3 on my phone, but Aug 31 on pc. xD

Yeah, I am a big fan of Lovecraft myself - weird Xenophobe that he was. The author and book subreddits are all very civil. The least civil are the video game and television show subreddits.

RIF

The forum performance is much better right now.

I agree, the book reddits are very enjoyable in general.

It all depends on the subreddit yes. There are plenty of great ones.
But go to the BG3 subreddit on any given day and sort by controversial, and you’ll find posts that simply shouldn’t be controversial.

Did the same thing and it also worked on my end.

*Weeps*

After generally good performance for much of today, the forums are timing out for me again. I assume other folk are having problems too.

Yeah. It was fine a little while ago. Now it’s chugging.

See?
I told ya.

Your assumption is correct.

I'll take the time to mention that there are easy ways to test individual internet connectivity, from the trusty old ping to simply taking samples of page refreshing on the tested site versus some other known site.
Once it has been established that local connectivity is fine, it gets a little trickier, as one could move on to a tracert to the forum's IP address and see where it fails, since the failure could be regional (in a wider-reaching network node) or at its source (i.e. the forum server).

And judging by the information we have so far... yes, the forums need software updating. Picking a good time for that is beyond me, but I'd suggest sooner rather than later.

If I've helped one person out there, my goal was achieved

Yes, they worked fine for me until about 4:30 pm (16:30 h) UTC+2, then getting a lot worse. I had network timeouts around 5 pm (17:00 h) UTC+2, now it works again but is still extremely slow.

Yeah, I have problems too

This really is the Ketheric Thorm of Slow Forum performance

It's been the same with me.

Yes, I shouldn't have said anything 😕

Gonna chime in the choir, forums performance reminds me of 1999 with dial up connection.

All of the sudden the forum remembered that it’s 2023 and not 2003 and is behaving like a normal website. Cool.

SWEEET, forums are moving at light speed right now for me.
Small victories lol