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Scrolling seems to break sometimes on long posts?

It sometimes stops the scrolling , am on firefox dont know about other browsers,

DOont have this issue with other websites,

Well, I tried using Firefox, and it works just fine—no freeze or slowdown.

What are your current device specs? It might just be a RAM issue; that's why it takes long to load or it freezes because you don't have enough RAM memory.

If you have a laptop with a Celeron CPU and 2GB of RAM, then expect to see slowdown when browsing.

Try on this huge thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.696900

It works just fine for me, both Chrome and Firefox.

Try opening the task manager to find the culprit; it might be ram or CPU. If you see the 100% usage on CPU then it's your CPU or if it's RAM then the only solution that I know is to replace the RAM or add more RAM. You can also try adjusting the Virtual Ram on advanced settings and turn the visual effect to best performance and customize the virtual RAM size to 4 GB or higher. Let's see if it can speed up your browsing a bit.

WO thread is a huge thread but I see now slow downs on that thread. I believe you might have low ram on your system. I'm having around 24 GB ram in my system and it works flawlessly for me. I suggest you to use Linux as it's way faster and doesn't require much resources. If your system is weak go for a low-end Linux Distribution instead of upgrading your system as that will solve your issue without spending anything on new hardware upgrades. You may consider Lubuntu, Puppy Linux, or any other Linux distribution like Bodhi Linux that doesn't require much hardware resources.

That's a pretty big update for non technical person (assuming OP is) for just a simple problem OP is facing.

To OP, if you think your device is not crashing, or maybe to some extent, due to your device specs when browsing WO thread, make sure or try to close other tabs, apps, and background apps (unnecessary) on your PC, check BitMaxz's comment. It might help to lessen the burden your device's experiencing. 😅

Did you mean about Show all in huge (mega) threads?

Thread printing. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112077.0)

Forum disabled show all but there is a scraper that does this job for you.
Show all on long topics. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5112444.0)

Honestly I don't really have need of getting all pages and posts of a mega thread.

I can also visit Wall Observer thread and scroll its pages without any issue.
I don't think it matters how large a thread is. In every page, you see the maximum number of 20 posts.


I don't think OP is referring to "Show all".
"Show all" button is available only for threads with less than 25 pages and not for a very large thread like Wall Observer.

I've been using Firefox as my main browser and I have no issues whatsoever, and the same goes when I am on my mobile phone (again using Firefox).

By the way, this issue is on PC or mobile phone?

No, I don't think if Op meant loading but scrolling over a long page like after opened a thread, you want to scroll through. It sometimes behaves this kind of hanging or slow going unless you've to scroll/swipe the page forcefully. However, loading goes smoothly.
I talk from experience which was shared here few months ago https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5501072.msg64256087#msg64256087.
The obvious thing there's that I don't experience this if scrolling from down to top but when scrolls up to down. Although the performance doesn't occur consistently but at most.
So if I want to scroll freely, I take from the bottom. Like said, it happens most when the page is lengthy.
I either don't think it's from the device browser because other browsers acts the same but I'll agree with you that it could be from the device capacity probably the mobiles touch screen swipe since it doesn't happen on the system with the mouse. My system isn't one of those screen touch though to test run if it'd be a case of device capacity or just the screen swipe barrier on the long pages.
Moreover it doesn't occur when using other websites but only bitcointalk platform.

Scrolling doesn't freeze my Firefox. You can try to disable "smooth scrolling": go to Settings, search "smooth", disable it. If you have unnecessary extensions: get rid of them.
This sounds like a browser/system problem, which doesn't really belong in Meta.

I’m using Firefox and don’t have any problems viewing threads. I think the problem is that you click on “all” when opening mega threads and what that does is make the whole thread into one single page and that can make your browser seem long.

The problem can't be with the "show all".
OP referred to Wall Observer thread and as I said in my previous post, the "show all" button isn't available for the threads with more than 25 pages at all.

You can see all posts of a thread in a single page, only if it has 25 pages or less.

Try and check your browser if updated, try and also put it on desktop mode in case you're using a mobile device, lastly, you can attempt in using other browser aside firefox, personally i don't like the way it displays and often prefer for the use of google chrome, i also want to advise that you don't load all the pages on a thread at once, sometimes it may take a while to load up completely, or when you have internet issue, i don't prefer check them one after the other than pressing the button view all.

Scrolling is working correct for me, so maybe this has something to do with your browser, cookies or installed extensions.
You can try opening same topics with different browsers and see if everything stays the same or something changes.

Nope, everything seems to be working as usual, no freezing or lagging. Tried with different browsers like Chrome, firefox, mises, different devices like pc, mobile, all okay from my side.

yea it was on my end,

seem to scroll fine now reinstalled firefox my bad

It's possible your Firefox browser has accumulated too much cache, cookies, and browsing history, which can slow down performance. Instead of uninstalling and reinstalling the app, try clearing the cache, cookies, and history from the browser settings. This usually resolves delays without needing a full reinstall

I assume it is because of your device specs. I don't have a problem accessing any page here on the forum except for two (trust list and ignore list). However, I have faced a similar issue when I tried to access the same pages on LoyceV's website. This mostly happens when I try to access some pages using my Laptop. However, I can access these pages using my Desktop, which is fine.

I see you already fixed it by reinstalling your browser. I assume your browser consumed a lot of data and was heavy on your device, which may have caused this issue. But good to know that the issue was solved already.

It seems the problem has been solved, and the advice is no longer relevant, so the OP should close the topic.

Additionally, for future unexpected moments when working with the browser, I think it is worth finding out about the browser's performance and how much memory it consumes. The site itself has good advice on how to minimize RAM usage via about: memory, and also regularly check it via about: processes.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-or-cpu-resources

To confirm whether there is really a issue with this forum, OP should check the behavior with this forum compared to other sites. If his system freezes for all sites including bitcointalk, your response might be valid for him and he should act as per the suggestion offered.