Amazon AW Widget

cooeedownunder · Feb 1, 2009

Hey guys,

I am pretty certain the widget you have on top of aw is slowing down your site very painfully for anyone with dial up connection...it is difficult to post, rep, or initiate sending pms. The issue is not on other sites I am visiting and has only been here since you put it up. You may like to consider something less heavy.

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Sharon

Deleted member 42 · Feb 1, 2009

OK; thanks for letting us Know. Mac or I will deal with it tonight or tomorrow.

We're just really excited about Bear's chat.

cooeedownunder · Feb 1, 2009

Medievalist said:
OK; thanks for letting us Know. Mac or I will deal with it tonight or tomorrow.

We're just really excited about Bear's chat.

Yes, it is an exciting time...thanks for looking into it

It has seemed a bit better the last hour 5pm Australian time now, but this might be because many of AW users are now resting. Having said that, that in itself shouldn't make no difference to a degree for users, well it can, depending on the server projecting the image which is obvisously linked to where it is (i can't type the last letter of the alphbet sometimes on this keyboard) lololol, and just spelt the alphabet wrong cause I do things like that.

goodluck with it.

ETA....part of the problem is that it loads everytime a user goes somewhere on the site...when I leave here it will need to load again, the post after that it will load again and so on....maybe you could put it on a dedicated header, so that it remains loaded on the site once loaded?

petec · Feb 2, 2009

Quick
just managed to get in
Every time I change pages my browser times out

alleycat · Feb 2, 2009

It even slows a DSL connection a little. There's a momentarily hesitation whenever a page is loading until it gets through running the widget.

Beach Bunny · Feb 2, 2009

Ditto for my cable modem connection at 6:00 AM while most people are not yet logged on. This could be a problem when most people are on as before the widget was added I was routinely getting connection time out errors when there are a lot of people using the site.

RobJ · Feb 2, 2009

Since you added the widget it's been snowing hard over much of the UK. If you could leave it for a couple of days, just till we've had a chance to make a snowman and play with the kids, then make it go away again, that'd be great.

Cheers,
Rob

DaddyCat · Feb 2, 2009

I just turned off my Flash player in Firefox, and I'll leave it off when visiting AW until the annoyance is gone.

alleycat · Feb 2, 2009

DaddyCat said:
I just turned off my Flash player in Firefox, and I'll leave it off when visiting AW until the annoyance is gone.

I thought I tried that yesterday and it didn't work. I'll have to try again when I get home. I was trying everything I could think of yesterday to get it to not show up while still being able to see everything on AW.

Thanks for the information.

DaddyCat · Feb 2, 2009

alleycat said:
I thought I tried that yesterday and it didn't work. I'll have to try again when I get home. I was trying everything I could think of yesterday to get it to not show up while still being able to see everything on AW.

Thanks for the information.

Disabling the Flash player took effect immediately for me, but then I'm running Linux. I haven't had any problems with the rest of the site so far.

BTW, one of my cats could be your avatar's twin!

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Feb 2, 2009

It locked me up this morning and I'm on cable with a new Toshiba laptop and 2G memory.

alleycat · Feb 2, 2009

Kil the widget! Kill the widget!

;-)

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Feb 2, 2009

Now I'll be hearing Elmer Fudd sing 'Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit!' alllll day!

alleycat · Feb 2, 2009

We could all write a story . . .

The Wily, Wascally Widget of Absolute Write

Rolling Thunder · Feb 2, 2009

I'm using dial-up and haven't had any problem, but I have signatures turned off in my usercp.

You'd be surprised how much faster AW loads with all that...crap, turned off.

petec · Feb 2, 2009

"Elizabeth Bear and her widget"

I wish they would both go away

scarletpeaches · Feb 2, 2009

The amazon logo appears in the middle of my screen when I'm loading a new page and the widget slows things down a fraction but nothing disastrous.

I are on broadbean with 1gb RAM on m'laptop.

petec · Feb 2, 2009

Ok this is my bandwidth results, but I have other things to do with it than use it on widgets

See Y'all

Puma · Feb 2, 2009

It makes me sea-sick enough I may have to stay off AW until it's gone. I absolutely detest moving ads. Puma

alleycat · Feb 2, 2009

I don't know whether it's the widget, or something else, but I'll had to kill IE three times this morning on my office computer. Something just makes the site hang.

scarletpeaches · Feb 2, 2009

You too, alleycat? IE keeps freezing, so I close it down, re-open and same thing happens again. I thought it was my computer, or the fact my Norton subscription's just run out. I fear teh virus fairy!

Williebee · Feb 2, 2009

I haven't had a problem with it, in Firefox, on DSL.
All that Colin Farrell crap makes me a little nauseous, though.

DaddyCat · Feb 2, 2009

My Firefox crashed this morning, in Linux no less. Not a virus, but clearly this widget is proving to be more trouble than it's worth.

Fenika · Feb 2, 2009

I couldn't find info on the chat in a search, so I'll just jump into this thread.

Who is organizing the chat? I'd like to talk with them for fear of a potential conflict with the SFF chat (Thursdays at 9PM EST).

Cheers

Clair Dickson · Feb 2, 2009

I use Ad Blocker Plus on my Firefox which helps with dancing Widgets.

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