Absolute Write keeps crashing

Clovitide said:

Absolute Write keeps crashing on me. I noticed it today and yesterday, but today it’s pretty bad. I don’t know if this is happening to everyone. The page keeps loading, then my computer gives me that pop: ‘one or more programs has failed to load, what do you want to do? Terminate or Wait?’ So I terminate it.

I can scroll and flip between tabs to my other working websites, but Absolute won’t let me click on any links inside it. It’s only happening on Absolute. Is there anyway to fix it?

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It's almost certainly a local problem. There are currently over 900 users on the forums, another couple hundred spiders/bots, and 128 people on the AW Website.

What OS and Web browser are you using?

Have you tried logging off
Deleting cookies
Clearing your cache
Completely quitting your browser, shutting down all browser windows, and logging back on?

It keeps freezing up on me, too. I am also on Chrome. (but Mac)

zmethos said:

It keeps freezing up on me, too. I am also on Chrome. (but Mac)

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I'll take a look with Chrome and see what I can find.

zmethos said:

It keeps freezing up on me, too. I am also on Chrome. (but Mac)

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I've been having problems the past two days with AW freezing up too. (Windows ??? and Chrome) I've cleared cookies and caches, and I suspect it's related to this ad:

Every time it comes up, my page breaks, one way or another. Freezes movement (I can scroll the page but can't click anything or leave the page without shutting the page entirely. This is how I've figured out this is the ad that breaks things), runs a script that can't load, or crashes entirely. Not sure if it's anything you guys can do since I think it's a google ad, though. Not like you can even tell what the ad's for.

Maggie Maxwell said:

I've been having problems the past two days with AW freezing up too. (Windows ??? and Chrome) I've cleared cookies and caches, and I suspect it's related to this ad:

Every time it comes up, my page breaks, one way or another. Freezes movement (I can scroll the page but can't click anything or leave the page without shutting the page entirely. This is how I've figured out this is the ad that breaks things), runs a script that can't load, or crashes entirely. Not sure if it's anything you guys can do since I think it's a google ad, though. Not like you can even tell what the ad's for.

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Yeah, that's not something we do; it's Google. I suspect it's a bad player and attempting to serve a video ad, which I've blocked at the server level as well as forbidding them on Google's settings.

I've had the same problem. Windows/Chrome in the past couple days. The Chrome page swells to 600K and it keeps try to load and my CPU use jumps to 100%. I have to shut down Chrome and restart. Sometimes it can happen multiple times before it clears. As I write it's 90k which is average-ish. It acts like something huge is trying to load.

I've noticed AW has been intermittently laggy for me lately, and I use Mozilla. By laggy, I mean pages sometimes take a while to load, posts take a while to pop up after I hit post, or I'll have episodes when what I am typing takes a while to appear on the screen (leading to many typos that have to be fixed later--amazing how much I rely on visual feedback on the screen to type accurately and correct my keystrokes).

I haven't had crashes, though. Sometimes closing extra browser windows, or closing and reopening my browser window helps, though that can be an issue if I'm in the middle of typing a post. Sometimes copying and saving doesn't work when it gets like this.

I've gotten a new computer recently, so I was wondering if it was a Windows 10/Firefox issue, though I haven't noticed this on other websites. AW is working great for me at the moment, though. Maybe there are periods of especially heavy usage that are causing this.

We're having a lot of issues with bots attempting to register; I took AW offline briefly Sunday to do some housekeeping.

Restarted the server again on Wednesday, but it wasn't offline for even ten minutes.

Just to add info: I also have had this problem, both on Chrome and Firefox. It isn't local.

caw

First off, I don't use Firefox and know nuthin' about it.

So, for those of you experiencing this problem on Windows or other OS and using Chrome: what version of Chrome are you using and is it the latest version?

I'm not having the problem in question and I'm on Windows 10. My current Chrome version: 67.0.3396.62 (Official Build) (64-bit) (cohort: 67_win_62). This is the latest version, btw. <--You can type chrome://version in your address bar, then check the link I gave to verify your version on Windows, Android, MacOS, Linux, and iOS is the latest.

I've tried with Chrome, Firefox and Safari on Windows, iOS, Android and OS X in various flavors, and a Chromebook.

I'm not having the issue. I'm not blocking ads. I haven't seen the ad Maggie helpfully posted, but yesterday afternoon I asked Google to remove the ad in question from the AW Ad queue.

I don't know if that is in fact the issue. I suspect it might be.

Local, by the way, means it's happening on individual users' OS, hardware and network, rather than on the server.

Ads are inserted locally, at the point the users' browsers display the page. I'm hoping that by blocking this ad that I've found the problem.

For currency, I have not experienced a problem for the past three or four days.

caw

I've been getting the same issue with Chrome, but not today I don't think?

Ha! I was trying to post that I hadn't had a problem in the past few days, but it froze on me as I was typing. I've had it freeze on me maybe one other time either yesterday or today, but I'm definitely noticing improvement. I'm on Mac OS X and Chrome 66.0.3359.181 (which appears not to be the latest version?).