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- Carolyn M. Fletcher

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Why is BP so slow?


I'm having trouble with BP's speed. It takes over a minute to just turn a page. Very slow to load at all. I'm really frustrated. Is anyone else having trouble or is it just me?


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May 06, 2017

 
- Bojan Bencic

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  You are not alone, Carolyn. BP is unusually slow today.


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May 06, 2017

 

Bill Johnson
  Ditto from me.


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May 06, 2017

 
- Martha R. Mazon

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  It has been extremely slow since early Friday pacific time. No better this morning.


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May 07, 2017

 
chrisbudny.com - Chris Budny

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  Definitely a major slow down the last week or so.
Recommend that you please send a BP Support email as well... I'm not convinced that posts about website issues here in the Forums are seen/noticed nearly as quickly as a direct Support email.


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May 08, 2017

 

Gord MacEachern
  Very slow here last couple months or more.
Some days so slow to download or comment.
Worse at end of month when there is a lot of commenting to the winners etc.
Gord


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May 08, 2017

 
- Carolyn M. Fletcher

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  It seems to have picked up a little speed this afternoon. Hopefully it will be all better soon.


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May 08, 2017

 
- Usman M. Bajwa

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  Its quite slow for me too for the last week or so.


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May 09, 2017

 
BetterPhotoJim.com - Jim Miotke

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  Thanks friends.

There are these "bots" that attack sites sometimes, hitting the same page over and over again. This slows everything down.

Working on it (with joy) :-)


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May 12, 2017

 
- Carolyn M. Fletcher

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  Looks like it happened again. Very slow the last couple of days. I think the "bots" like BP.


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June 27, 2017

 
- Reynaldo D. Reyes

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  So slooooooow! Can't even comment on anybody!


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June 27, 2017

 

Gord MacEachern
  Commenting and posting almost impossible!!!
Gord


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June 27, 2017

 

Gord MacEachern
  Commenting and posting almost impossible!!!
Gord


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June 27, 2017

 

Gord MacEachern
  Commenting and posting almost impossible!!!
Gord


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June 27, 2017

 

John Koepfer @PresentPleasures
  Bots appear to be winning, will have to wait for speed to pick up comment, hope it is soon I do enjoy looking and commenting on your wonderful lmages!!!


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June 27, 2017

 
buffalogalphotos.com - Terry Cervi

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  I gave up trying to accomplish anything here last night. I spent a lot of time trying to maneuver from one page to another so I gave up. This has been happening to me for many, many months. Sometimes things seem fine and then at other times things are too slow to even attempt any participation.


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June 27, 2017

 

Ujjwal Mukherjee
  While the BP site has been slow generally for some time now, it’s been particularly bad since last 2 days (26th June) for me, the next page after the home page takes forever to load or too long to wait , and it makes no difference whether I am using Chrome or IE or whether I am accessing from Laptop or Phone, it’s the same.


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June 28, 2017

 

Ujjwal Mukherjee
  ** not only 'the' next page after the home page but all subsequent web pages take forever to load.


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June 28, 2017

 
- Usman M. Bajwa

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  Yes, the site has been sluggish for the past few days. Damn the bots. Hope It gets back to speed. Currently, it barely making the ends meet, lol 😂


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June 28, 2017

 
BetterPhotoJim.com - Jim Miotke

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  Should be working better now. Thanks everybody!

Jim


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June 28, 2017

 

Bill Johnson
  Thanks Jim, It seems better now. Over the last three days I couldn't do anything. I envy those of you who got to the forum to comment. I could do nothing except look at the front page some of the time and look at the error page. That was it.


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June 28, 2017

 
- Usman M. Bajwa

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  Thank you Jim. Much appreciated.


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June 28, 2017

 

Ujjwal Mukherjee
  Yes, much,much better...almost at normal level!! Thanks,Jim!!


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June 28, 2017

 
chrisbudny.com - Chris Budny

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  Alas, it seems to have perhaps gone back to slower response times. Particularly when posting a comment on a Photo discussion thread... :( had a 45 second wait for it to save a 1-sentence comment just now...


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July 19, 2017

 
- Martha R. Mazon

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  I didn't notice the slowdown last month, but I'm definitely noticing now. It's been very painful since at least Tuesday.


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August 11, 2017

 

Ronald Lunn
  It's painfully slow. I have fibre optic in work at home I can't even open a page.


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September 28, 2017

 

Gord MacEachern
  I too have had fibre optics for over 5 years,love it till I try and post on BF,then the nightmare begins.... sadly it just keeps getting worse not better. Like multitude of others how could you begin to renew?
GORD


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September 30, 2017

 
- Nikki McDonald

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  Yep, it's awful here, too. We pay big bucks for high speed internet and have no problems elsewhere, but at BP . . .


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October 01, 2017

 
- Dayna Cain

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  I just commented on a photo titled "Cascade" by Joannie Bertucci. It took almost a full minute (which is faster than it has been in the past). I don't comment as much as I would like because of the speed issues but sometimes when you see a photo like "Cascade" it's worth the extra time it takes. Hopefully BP will resolve the problem and we can all get back to sharing the love!


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October 02, 2017

 
- Dayna Cain

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  BP is quick as lightning now! I have been commenting on beautiful photos all morning and I love it!


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October 05, 2017

 
- Ann Coates

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  Yes, I have noticed the last couple of days a big improvement in speed, let's hope it continues.


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October 05, 2017

 
- Joannie Bertucci

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  Dayna, I'm hiring you for my publicist! :-)


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October 05, 2017

 
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