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Using iPad Mini with Chrome seems stable for browsing for me.

Getting repeated problem with pages not fully loading - either a blank screen or only part of the page loading. Seems most frequent when I am trying to 'quote and reply', but that may just be a coincidence.

Smilies not working.

They wouldn't work for an earlier post for me. I also noted that Savvypaul's post on Messages did not show up when I clicked on to the thread.

antonio66 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 7:32 pm They wouldn't work for an earlier post for me. I also noted that Savvypaul's post on Messages did not show up when I clicked on to the thread.

It's doing loads of weird stuff. It keeps hanging for me when I try to switch to "Full Editor & Preview" when making a post.

Forum is awful for me at the moment. Slow, internal server errors pages appearing blank until i hit the refresh button. Bonkers.

karatestu wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:54 pm Forum is awful for me at the moment. Slow, internal server errors pages appearing blank until i hit the refresh button. Bonkers.

Same for me unfortunately.

It's been going on for so long (in one form or another) that it's become the norm.

valvesRus wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 6:27 pm

karatestu wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:54 pm Forum is awful for me at the moment. Slow, internal server errors pages appearing blank until i hit the refresh button. Bonkers.

Same for me unfortunately.

It's been going on for so long (in one form or another) that it's become the norm.

I'm afraid, you are correct.

The hosting company that HFS is with used to be one of the very best - better than average up-time and speed, and very good UK based customer service. I believe they were taken over a year or so back and all aspects seem to have deteriorated. I suspect that they are simply loading their servers too high.

Our choices are either to switch to a higher price product with the existing host (on the promise of better performance), or to migrate the forum to a different host.

The latter should be better, but the migration process for a long established forum with several extensions is not simple. Migrating to a better product with the same host should be relatively easy, but current performance makes one baulk a little at the idea. We will do one or the other...as soon as.

but the migration process for a long established forum with several extensions is not simple.

phpBB is just a directory and a database. create a tar of the forum directory and a backup of the database. Untar on new host, and restore the database. Update name servers. Should be pretty much as simple as that. Pay extra for a server with root access instead of behind some stupid web based front end.