Ad engines hanging

[Anonymous]

Jeff,

For the last 8-10 hours, I've had some issues with the ads hanging. I'm running Chrome on Windows 10. I can load "Recent Topics" without an issue, but frequently (not every click, but probably about 75%) when I click on a thread, it can take up to 20-25 seconds to load. The message in the lower left corner will have some sort of "waiting for ..." (some address) or "loading" type messages. I can hit reload and sometimes it will hang and sometimes it will reload the page. I finally turned off Javascript and have no issues whatsoever. I hate to do that since I know that it impacts your ad revenue. I don't mind the ads, but I do mind the fact that it takes several minutes to read one thread.

Note that none of this happens when I read DCUM on my Android phone, even using Chrome.

[jsteele]

I haven't heard other reports of this problem, but I will try to replicate it tomorrow. You might try clearing your browsers cache and removing cookies to see if that helps at all.

[Anonymous]

Turned Javascript back on. Here are the messages from the last set of hanging screens:

"Processing request..."
"Waiting for sync.1rx.io..."
"Waiting for cache..."
"Connecting..."

Also had one page waiting for an ad from an engine including "quant" in the name, but I looked away and came back and only saw it briefly before it went away. Not sure that it was up that long.

[Anonymous]

I keep getting hit by an ad bot. Guess that means it's time for bed.

[Anonymous]

I keep getting a screen that says "Open in app" in various forums since yesterday.

[Anonymous]

^^ ooops posted in wrong thread!! I'm getting redirect notices with windows changing from DCUm and opening up the App Store

I'm in iPhone 6+ on AT&T

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:^^ ooops posted in wrong thread!! I'm getting redirect notices with windows changing from DCUm and opening up the App Store

I'm in iPhone 6+ on AT&T

Try clearing your website data. This seems to be hitting AT&T users mostly. If you can use wifi, that might be better. I'm still trying to track this down.