I’ve noted that “preview” when creating posts either doesn’t work, or takes too long and I just give up… go ahead and post, and then edit later.  If preview worked, it would save time, and avoid the time limit imposed on editing.

I’d also prefer it if links would open in a new window instead of losing this one.  I have my personal setting adjusted to do that, but It isn’t working, I still see this window changing instead of a new tab or window.

Hey, Thunder.

We’re painfully aware of the issue with the “preview” button taking forever, along with the overall performance of the site. We’re looking into the problem, and hope to find a solution as soon as humanly possible.

With regard to links opening in a new tab or window, I agree with you. I’ll look into that, too, but while I’m part of the team that is responsible for stuff like that, I’m not one of the “decision makers”, so I’ll have to try to do some convincing there. One way or another, though, I’ll let everyone know about what’s been found/decided.

Sorry for all the inconveniences Daves! It’s very annyoying to me too. It will all be addressed, promise!

All comments that follow are meant
to be of assistance, not disapproving
judgments. As a guest of this forum,
I am certainly not trying to act like
an admininstrator.

A workaround I sometimes use is
copy and paste from notepad in
Windows or gedit in Linux.
I’ll go into more discussion about that,
if requested, such as how to use
bbcode manually.

A similar trick I use is I select all the
text and copy it to memory, so that
if something freezes I have it saved
in memory to paste it when the forum
returns.  If the forum crashes, then I
paste it into notepad or gedit and save
it to a file.  This way nothing is lost.
It’s easy to delete files later.

I suspect in a polite manner, which I do not
wish confirmed, that it may be a virtual machine
underperforming somewhere which is causing
the performance issues.  The webhost may be
able to help with that, not just the forum module
authors.

Mentioned as a solution suggestion:
Forums that run on ASP, PHP or Perl, for example:
Virtual Humans Forum rarely have
performance issues, it seems.

With that said, I support that addressing
performance issues of this forum module may
be the only viable option. Chatbots.org is very
popular and highly valued.  So the authors of
this forum module and the webhost tech support
may want to make it a priority to promote earning
more customers.

I hope this analysis, which is on topic, strictly
for discussion purposes, may be helpful to someone.

Thanks, Tom. I’m not sure if the bit about VM issues is relevant, but it’s certainly something to look into.

Sometimes there may be server virtualization, for which the webhost may optimize to boost performance.  A bunch of network operating systems are installed on top of that for customers, so perhaps only the webhost may have that level of access, and the customer perhaps not. But tech support at the webhost is usually excellent for virtual private servers because it is considered a premium account.

Please feel free to delete my posts on this topic, if you want…  I don’t mind at all.