Comments on: Can we lose the Digg nonsense?

By: jimmyg

jimmyg — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:28:58 +0000

Thank You.

By: Karina

Karina — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:01:41 +0000

and had no choice but Vista. On the whole, I don’t mind it except when I’m trying to download new programs. Unfortunately, I’m in a dry country but I could use that stiff drink!!! Some days I’m tempted to toss this thing out the window. It has a touch screen which is fabulous until a fly lands on it and changes pages on me.

By: Neil Stevens

Neil Stevens — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:45:13 +0000

I took digg off of the FP. So it loads at most once per page, and only when you hit a story page.

By: janis

janis — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:05:00 +0000

Just got a new computer and insisted on having XP on it instead of Vista. The tech nodded wisely and said, “Good choice. Do you use Firefox?” Fortunately, I do, so I looked less of a tech-fool than usual.

By: Karina

Karina — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:02:49 +0000

It either refuses to download or shuts down completely. Very frustrating.

By: 6eorge Jetson

6eorge Jetson — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:51:04 +0000

and a reminder that with cars and Microsoft products, buying the first model year is usually fraught with peril.

Vista brought next to no consumer benefits and worsened performance. Microsoft basically foisted the beginnings of a tighter security framework onto consumers in an unready/unsolid state. It usually takes Microsoft about three tries before they get a “new” paradigm right. Try 2 is usually “not bad”.

By: Neil Stevens

Neil Stevens — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:35:05 +0000

But regardless I’m addressing this tonight.

By: Karina

Karina — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:31:15 +0000

Haven’t found anything that works well on it yet. Miss my XP.

By: Lammo

Lammo — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:17:25 +0000

with XP Pro, up to date Firefox and a Verizon Wireless USB modem.

By: larueladue

larueladue — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:47:50 +0000

Been using it for years, and don’t have any problems…. It is different, but different is good. And it is fast!

By: Achance

Achance — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:37:49 +0000

Mine take FOREVER to load the ads. Left side pops right up and then it just stalls, sometimes for a minute or more.

By: dave_in_atl

dave_in_atl — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:34:59 +0000

its not an IE issue at all… you are loading javascript inline which is forcing the page to block while it retrieves the code the first time stalling everything else in the process.

you need to setup that digg stuff to be loaded on window.onload instead which would fix the whole problem.

By: dave_in_atl

dave_in_atl — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:33:25 +0000

I can tell you the site has new loading problems in pretty much every browser I tested which I will list below….

Firefox 3.5
IE 5.5 / 6 / 7 / 8
Chrome
Safari (iPhone / windows / mac )

It does seem to be the digg javascript that is causing the problems (once the code is cached by the browser the site loads fine)

I would recommend installing the firebug extension in firefox and checking out redstate with a cleared cache… the site currently nearly locks up the entire browser for 30 seconds to a minute on first load.

By: janis

janis — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:33:15 +0000

it’s a lot faster than IE.

By: Neil Stevens

Neil Stevens — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:33:00 +0000

Will investigate.

By: $peciallist

$peciallist — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:28:34 +0000

IE seems like the problem….nothin new

By: Taniwha

Taniwha — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:22:51 +0000

and a hot PC running XP (not Vista) and IE7. So does my ladyfriend, for when I’m at her place. There was no problem before a few days ago. Now both of us are dead slow, for Redstate only.

No – sorry, but it’s not me.

By: Neil Stevens

Neil Stevens — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:15:10 +0000

Browser, version, etc.

By: jimmyg

jimmyg — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:14:14 +0000

For me it started on Friday. It caused me to clean up my computer etc.. Still slow.

By: thegrognard

thegrognard — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:04:01 +0000

…if it was just me.

I read probably 30-50 sites per day (sometimes more), and Red State is the only one I have problems with. Load time for this site is usually anywhere from 30 seconds to well over a minute, and sometimes (not every day but close to it)when I browse to this site it causes my browser to crash (IE 7 with all Microsoft updates).

I spent some time checking my IE settings and internet connection to see if it was a problem on my end, but everything looks kosher to me. Thus, I have to conclude that something about Red State is causing the problem.