this website has gone ballistic.

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  1. Mendel Leisk

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    Good news: site is very stable, for quite some time now.
    Bad news: trying to refresh a page, go to a linked page, seems to occasionally cause a complete blank. Sometimes another refresh request, it loads. Or not, say for 2~3 minutes.
     
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    Perhaps a problem with an ad loading? I user to see things stall trying to contact the ad services. The page will not load without the ads.
    Today, I had an issue with my iPad where it took a while to post a reply and I saw no progress bar. I ended up posting multiple times. This is the first time in a long time I had this issue.
     
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  3. Mendel Leisk

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    I think I notice it more on my pc than on my phone (if at all). On the PC I'm alternating between a couple of ad blockers. Yeah not sure.
     
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    no problems from orlando, kablock enabled!(y)
     
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    Clicked on alerts, then left it to play FreeCell. Took about 5 minutes, then suddenly loaded.

    Meh, assume we're all just talking talking among themselves.
     
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    I'm using an awe-inspiring blocking browser of Android tablet. No problems at all since the recent site-performance-boost.
     
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    The Samsung Internet beta for Android can use multiple ad blockers and seems to work well.

    Better than the app, which I downgraded to by sucking the .apk off a device I didn't upgrade and sending over by Bluetooth. Sorry, I don't like spam.
     
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    Awe inspiring should have been ad-blocking. My fault! I should read again before posting..:oops:
     
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    Awesome!
     
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    Spell checker rewriting history again? :eek:
     
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    Uh-oh. It looks like we’re ganging up on @RCO
     
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    At one stage I was using the voice recognition on my Samsung S2 to send Facebook massages - the arthritis in my thumbs was particularly bad at the time. It was terrible for errors - not only did it auto-correct, but it didn't always hear me clearly.
     
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    It only goes to show we need a healthy dose of mistrust in auto-technology! o_O
     
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    You said auto-technology.
    Do you mean automotive technology, automatic technology, or automatic automotive technology?
    Perhaps some combination of the above? :confused:
     
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    Simple answer: yes! Probably all of the above. I've been practicing scepticism for a few years now and it has served me well, except when trusting auto-corection.
     
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    @Danny @tideland or anyone; just at present, for me, trying to "like" a post is completely glacial. Near unresponsive.
     
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    no problem here, phone?
     
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    As a skeptic, I have to assume your auto-correction is turned off...

    (I call mine auto-wrong)

    Did you know the word "wrong" is spelled wrong in the dictionary????
     
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    His auto-correction is correct. @RCO lives in the UK. "Skeptic" would be incorrect there.

    Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
     
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    But his "auto-corection" is incorrect.
    Don't you hate typoing when trying to correct somebody else? :eek: