I think it might have been our pals at Wonkette gumming up the works. I removed that.
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I think it might have been our pals at Wonkette gumming up the works. I removed that.
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raven
Let’s see. Quicker for sure. Mac Safari.
lamh36
Worked pretty fast for me just now
scav
Well, this seems much happier to me, although today I even had google hang on me, so I may be wrestling with multiple issues.
Arm The Homeless
Much better.
Did you feed the squirrels, or just grease the wheels they’re on?
soonergrunt (mobile)
Works for me.
raven
Let’s see what it does on Chrome, I haven’t been able to use it for months. Not bad.
David Fud
wow, way better.
JPL
Much better, but I’ll miss Wonkette.
beltane
You know who else blamed Wonkette for everything?
Ahasuerus
MUCH better! (sorry, Wonkette)
Gin & Tonic
Way, way better.
sharl
I love Wonkette dearly, but on a number of occasions they’ve slowed down loading, crashed Shockwave Flash across all open tabs, or on rare occasion crashed a browser entirely (my predilection for having so many tabs open at once probably contributed to the latter).
Le Sigh…
SiubhanDuinne
Much, MUCH better! Curse you, Wonkette.
Goblue72
The ghost in the machine was mad at Ana Marie Cox for asking Bernie about his hair.
dr. luba
Much better, but now everything else on the internet is loading slowly. Chrome on a Mac. It does load the second time I try. Weird……
geg6
Yup, that did it. I dearly love Wonkette, but they have a lot of shit on their site that seems to jam the works no matter what I’m on. So no surprise that this was the needed fix.
raven
Ana Marie Cox hasn’t had anything to do with Wonkette for years.
Percysowner
That did it Firefox on a Mac
Ajabu
That seems to do it. Good on you, Cole.
burnspbesq
Oh, sure, blame Rebecca. What did she ever do to you, besides bear another man’s child?
JPL
@raven: The news said the man who fell at the stadium is in grave condition.
raven
@JPL: ESPN said he was screaming at A Rod and fell.
raven
According to witnesses seated in section 401 behind home plate, the fan was screaming at Alex Rodriguez, who had been sent up as a pinch hitter by the Yankees, when he suddenly lost his balance and fell approximately 50 feet to the concrete below, striking a railing on the way down.
Central Planning
Working better for the juicers in Rochester.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
Much, much better. Speedy, even.
Thanks JC.
Cheers,
Scott.
sharl
@burnspbesq:
+1
Kropadope
Not only does it work like lightning, Wonkette’s own site always destroys my computer. That’s why I stopped clicking those links long ago.
Gin & Tonic
@JPL: Inter-league play is unnatural. God exacts punishment.
schrodinger's cat
Much better
burnspbesq
@efgoldman:
The DH is an abomination. It is God’s punishment for … Trump sumpin’ sumpin.’
Kropadope
@burnspbesq:
You know what’s an abomination? 90+% of pitchers who swing bats.
sacrablue
Crap, now it is too fast. Could you slow it down a little, so my brain can catch up?
trollhattan
Faster here w/ Firefox, much faster. Wonkette always opens a second ad window for me, despite the popup blocker, and freezes a lot. Love them to death but my god, what an abomination of a website.
magurakurin
oooo that’s a bingo
geg6
@soonergrunt (mobile):
Hey! How you doing?
M. Bouffant
Instant!
jl
Wow. Fast. The wonkette site has had problems with funky delays waiting for ad stuff to show up. Maybe that was the problem.
OK, great. The great BJ blog slowness problem is off my mind. I’m going to spend a few minutes working my Grand Unified Theory of Trump, and then go out and do social activities in non-virtual reality, assuming I can stay away from head games in the meat space.
lgerard
I knew it was that stupid Blingee thing
SiubhanDuinne
@soonergrunt (mobile):
How lovely to see you. I’m one of dozens, if not scores or hundreds, who has been thinking of you. Hope you will be commenting more frequently when and as you feel like it.
M. Bouffant
@burnspbesq: The real problem may be that Rebecca’s baby-daddy is the webmaster there too.
TaMara (BHF)
That’s much better.I was only having problems on the PC Chrome, mobile was fine.
ETA: Seeing if it will let me edit without eating the whole thing.
ETA2: Success
Mike Furlan
Link to Eunomia still there, site still broken.
Roger Moore
@geg6:
Yeah, their site is pretty awful as far as using all the worst advertizing crap.
Scout211
It must be fixed now because Is it Down Right Now? Says balloon juice is “up and reachable”
Plus, it is back to speed on all my devices.
Yay!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
HBO’s Rome having a marathon on the Zone channel. If had known this, I wouldn’t have left the house today.
CrustyDem
Wow. Even works on the laptop on Chrome. Excellent!!
Kropadope
@efgoldman: How does one become a voting member of the BBWA?
Mike J
I hope Wonkette can get their shit together. It’s nice to have those heds here, but not at the expense of load time.
p.a.
Chrome on android, never had an issue (mobile version of bj). Vz DSL (and at max reach) on home computers, so I don’t even try.
Omnes Omnibus
@p.a.: Mobile doesn’t have the Wonkette link.
Kropadope
@Mike J: I knew their site didn’t work well, but I didn’t know it worked so poorly it could drag down other sites with it.
cokane
working well
Zinsky
It’s been loading fine on my tablet (iPad), but I have noticed the “link” button in the Comment box doesn’t work and kicks me completely out of Safari when I touch it.
Roger Moore
@Kropadope:
You have to report on baseball for a minimum of 10 years. Until recently, BBWAA was limited to print journalists, but they’ve recently opened membership to a select few web-only writers, like Sean Forman of Baseball-Reference.com.
Redshift
That would explain why it didn’t show down on phone/tablet – the Wonkette stuff doesn’t appear there. Apparently NewsM*x, despite its content being insane, is at least sane in the technical realm.
Omnes Omnibus
@Zinsky: Mobile version?
kc
Wonkette’s site turned into a total shitshow some time ago. The design, the ads, it’s just godawful.
What happened to it?
NotMax
Good on you.
Now that you’ve got extra time could you come over and do some mopping?
Um, on second thought, never mind. :)
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Bad thought.
Mike J
@Kropadope: Presumably by W’ing professionally (being paid for it) about BB, somewhere in A.
NotMax
Testing.
NotMax
Refreshing is faster (nearly back to the norm), but there’s still a hang-up when posting a comment.
Kropadope
@Roger Moore:
Well, efgoldman, I found the solution to your problem.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Testing the reply problem.
ETA: It is a lot quicker than it was. Not as fast as the refresh.
WaterGirl
Website is very zippy again. Thank you very much for fixing it, Cole!
Safari on Mac
Waysel
Way more better. Thanks. Mac Safari also.
Redshift
@Scout211:
Nah, it was never down, it was just really slow. So I don’t think that sort of test would tell you anything useful.
Waysel
And Google Chrome.
Kropadope
Oh, my browser is Microsoft Edge. Fine here.
Scout211
@Redshift:
Yeah, except that it DID say balloon juice was down and unreachable for the past four days.
Omnes Omnibus
@Scout211: I got that result on and off.
JPL
As Raven mentioned earlier, a fan fell from the upper deck at the Braves game tonight. He has died. Although sad, I’m glad that he didn’t land on the fans below him.
ms_canadada
@soonergrunt (mobile): Hi Sooner, Nice to see you here, and I hopyou’re doing well!
SuperHrefna
Site is leading well for me now too! Safari on an iPad. Thanks for figuring out what was wrong, it was frustrating not being able to load the site.
Wag
I’ll be interested to see if this stops the rand iPhone redirects from BJ to MySpace. God I hope so.
Wag
@Wag:
Well that was a quick negative. Redirects to MySpace after loading the comment above.
Never happens on any other site. Unique to BJ and then only on the iPhone.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
That fixed it for me, but for the last little while, the “Pals at Wonkette” box hasn’t shown any articles and the link just takes you back to the main page at Balloon Juice anyway.
J R in WV
@soonergrunt (mobile):
I’ll join the crowd and say Good to See You!!
Hope all is going well with you and yours in OK or wherever you are now.
We’re doing well here in WV. I’ve had shoulder arthoplasty (both) and am doing rehab, going well. Ouch, he said! Old fart speaking!
mai naem mobile
I’d.been thinking it was me for not.upgrading the chrome but it was you all along.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Wag: That’s weird. Maybe you’ve got a broken cookie or something on your iPhone? Are you using Safari?
With the caveat that you apparently can’t clear things selectively (so you’ll have to re-enter all your saved website passwords, etc.), so be careful –
http://www.accessc.com/articles/clear-history-cookies-cache-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch.html
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
Villago Delenda Est
Much better. John, you might attempt to contact Shypixel over at Wonkette, he’s their web guy as well as Mr. Editrix/father of Wonkbaby Donna Rose…the Wonkette link hasn’t been working for me at all even before you removed it, it just led back to BJ.
Sarah, proud and tall
Release the hamsters!
Mobile RoonieRoo
Woohoo! You fixed it for me.
Rob
The site usually loaded without a noticeable delay, until a week or 10 days ago (Firefox and Safari on MacBook Pro). Now (on Safari) it loads immediately.
I’ll miss the Wonkette headlines, but since I visit the site regularly anyway, it’s not that much of a loss.
Schlemazel
THATS IT!!
Thanks John
soonergrunt (mobile)
@efgoldman: Daughter is well, taking her driving test tomorrow. I’m moving to Salt Lake City to start a new position with the USDA.
gogol's wife
Excellent on Chrome. Thank you.
yastreblyansky
Huge, so far. Using Chrome, too, which makes it unbelievable. For months, even years, every Balloon Juice visit has basically shut me down and I’d largely given up though I love the site dearly. Hope this lasts!
Woodrowfan
better but still froze once due to Flash. but just once. not every 10 seconds.
(I have the latest Firefox, hated Crome)
qwerty42
@Kropadope: You know what’s an abomination? 90+% of pitchers who swing bats.
Hey, it’s called baseball: you throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball.
Now if only my team could figure out how to do that.
PaulW
Lemme try this blog flog for today’s musing on how Jeb! is screwing up his own campaign:
http://noticeatrend.blogspot.com/2015/08/getting-jebs-character-wrong-he-might.html
PaulW
it’s working on my Chrome browser. I wonder if it’s the extensions.
Also, buy my ebooks.
/gets pummeled
Oh cmon John asked us to TRY now. I’m TRYING to shill over here.
/gets further pummeled
Bitter Scribe
My Internet life has gotten immeasurably better since I disabled Flash in my browser. Flash is a fucking nuisance.
I just read that Amazon will stop accepting Flash-based ads. Hopefully this will start a trend.