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It's been days already since I first encountered this problem and until now, bitcointalk.org seems to take forever to load. Tried different browsers, clearing cache and cookies, flushing DNS cache, restarting my router but none of which seemed to help me with this problem. I can watch videos on HD without a problem, load other webpages within a second but loading bitcointalk is a different thing. What could be the cause of this slow loading? It's kinda annoying when you write down a long post and submit it only to be greeted with a "The webpage is unavailable" screen (and not to mention that the post isn't automatically saved to the drafts section).

I haven't been having a loading problem; everything's been going relatively normally. Have you tried going on BitcoinTalk via a different WiFi connection?

I'm on about 2 weeks now. Pages part load, load but then say they're not loaded completely or never respond to page requests at all.

Same here, generally when it comes i try to reload the page or else i give up and reconnect after few minutes.

I encountered this kind of promblem also the loading of is so slow and sometime it apper the 502 what I do is refresh again until it will go back to the normal.

Perhaps I get the 502 Error (or something of the sort) once in a while, but it's very rare in occurrence in my forum browsing experience. I get the error maybe once every few days. As for slowness, BitcoinTalk has been loading fine for my end.

There were also reports like this with the old server which was located on a different continent, had quite a different setup, etc. My guess is that Internet connections between certain regions just kind of suck, and you don't see it all too often because big websites have servers located all over the globe (unlike the forum's single server).

There are occasional problems related to the database being somewhat overloaded. Every now and then you'll see a 502 error or a "Database error!" or a page that takes ~30 seconds to load. But this seems to be different from the sort of persistent connection issues that people are describing here.

I have this issue too ... Always gotta refresh the page , or retype in the forum url..

edit: I also seem to have problems specifically with bitcointalk especially last few days. But my ISP is really bad so my conclusions/tests are unreliable. My internet hops thru HK. It seems to be better with US VPN. So my conclusion would be that it affects HK regio, but I don't know what location the ppl ITT are from.

Isn't it a problem in itself to declare that entire countries simply can't get good access to the server? In the UK we have two national networks and that's it, you're either one or the other and both will externally route the same way.

im also having slow connection on bitcointalk forum for about 1 week now but my connection to other sites is kinda normal on speed

This has never happened to me, unless you count me using bitcoin talk in an underground carpark. Even with my crappy 2G the page runs fine.

I confirm that! I also some time's have loading problems!   

I also experienced the same thing back then--pages take too long to load so I should reload the page to load it smoothly. In some cases, I will load a page with either a half-loaded page or, or a basic HTML webpage without the CSS elements. It's kinda annoying, though, but as long as it is still accessible, I'd be glad to visit this site more often. Also, may I know where the new server is located? Oh and by the way, is there a .onion website for bitcointalk?

http://s11.postimg.org/o3sqb2idf/bitcointalk.png

Basically this one. Most of the time, I'm being brought to a half-loaded page.

EDIT: It's not even half.

I've had that one a few times, actually. Instead of being able to see the first post, though, all I see is the advertisement. I'm not sure if that error is linked to the loading one though.

For me the loading is generally most of time good.
But sometimes it is impossible to load...but this is not too often and I have almost never problems once connected.

i was having this problem last week :P, idk what i did but it seems i fixed it somehow by resetting my router.
if that still doesnt work try using a different browser.

I dont think that so many peoples have problem with connection, all the more I think we are from different countries!

Meh. Tried using Chromium, Mozilla, Opera, and Google Chrome but still the problem persists. Maybe it has something to do with my connection's communication with bitcointalk's server. Tried also flushing my DNS cache and still the problem is there. If it can be fixed, great, but if not, I have no choice but to browse with some delays and other issues.

And the problem still persists. Guess what? I've been greeted by this page for straight 2 hours of browsing!

http://i60.tinypic.com/2lasks8.png

Anyone else experiences this?

If it always stops at the ad then maybe the ad is triggering it. FortuneJack's ad (shown in that screenshot) is particularly heavy on CSS. It is valid HTML/CSS, though.

Anyway around this ? had the same issue one too many times today..

Received an "Database Error" too. Looks like server is overwhelmed now.

UPD.: If you have no errors ATM you can try open a "Developer console" at "Network" tab and then refresh this page more than one time. It is good if you will request new page while old still in loading process. You can see that server responded with 503 code and says that "Service Temporarily Unavailable", basically on images requests.

It's not that big of an error; just refresh the page again and continue browsing. It can take up for a few seconds of your time and it's not particularly annoying, unlike that 502 error which usually persists for a minute.

The same thing can happen when sending a message, posting or asking for a draft preview. A large portion of requests are either getting lost or not being replied to. Its not as simple as refreshing the page.

I was talking about the error with the page half loading with only the advertisement on the page. I believe that error only occurs when you view a thread; I only get it at those times.

got a lot of 502's today. but i got used to it.

My point is its just one of many symptoms of likely the same problem, all of which can't be explained away by routing issues unless we all are in the same place.

It happens sometimes. Need to refresh the page many times first. And especially when posting the reply. Sometimes it doesn't work, I have to click post many times and ends on error page. But sometimes when that happens, I refresh the thread and my comment is already posted there. Phew.

i find bitcointalk lately to be smoother than last months. some times pages do take longer to load, but it doesn't bother me as much as a few months back.