Why is this forum so crap these days?

I don't mean only the posters but WHY do things take so long to happen now?

Before, one would write, add a smiley - or whatever - hit the post reply button and Roberta would be your aunt.  Sorted.

Now, smileys don't appear for 30 odd seconds and when I'm halfway through writing summit, the page jumps, and half my text is missing - so I need to type it again.  WTF?

Then, I post reply.  Sometimes the wee wheely thing spins forever or the text box empties and I need to check another box to see if it's sending.  Other times it disappears altogether, only to appear as sent when I refresh via F5.

I'm getting all wound up now, so could we get it sorted please?  Who's to blame?  PaddyPower?

You've been on it all night from the timing of your posts, maybe it's tired.

It's been like this for yonks.  I'm doing my best to jumpstart it.  Have you had no problems?  Plenty of others have.

The main problem seems to be the delay although dropped, letters, words and sometimes sentences do occur.
You could type separately in Word or Notepad or similar then copy and paste into the thread reply box.

yep same problem here

is it doing an automated 'hate' check?

You have to stop the page loading by clicking "stop" or the "X" next to the address box. Then the page wont jump around, the smilies will work and the reply should appear straight away.

I logged the traffic before crimbo and the site was getting "stuck" trying to fetch a CSS (stylesheet) file. Well it was for me.

It is still getting stuck for many minutes, i just stop the page loading without thinking about it now

The issue with the forum is the reality of it being 'legacy' code. The people who wrote it
will have moved on, likely it gets no maintenance at all.

Technically, the issue is caused by a http call to load a non existent gif from Betfair.
The delay varies from pc to pc depending on the browser time out setting. when it times out the rest of the forum
can load and then you will get 'smiles' etc.

Fixes vary from adjusting your browser timeout setting, placing a dummy gif in your temp internet files, or editing the host file to catch the call.

The thing about it being "unfit for purpose" or "impossible to maintain" resulted in the changing of a bloody brilliant forum to the far less good we now endure, back in 2010.
I wouldn't mind betting that the 'legacy' code thing is how this load of carp was sold to BF in the 1st place. Ironic, isn't it?

Escapee  02 Jan 18 21:32
Fixes vary from adjusting your browser timeout setting

Click "stop" or the X next to the address bar to adjust your browser timeout instantly

Am I the only person who can't access the forum from the BF Home page? If everyone else is the same I'd say very few people even look at it now.

likewise bix

I have got so used to doing it the other way now

Seems populated by lefties and "knuckle draggers"

get back in yer cave

Many posters probably prefer a meady ochre forum rather than a high-powered one full of threads which throb with challenging ideas expressed in sparkling prose...the whole being characterised by an abiding sense of sagacity and a liberal overlay of sophisticated wit.
On the uvver 'and - maybe knot.

Less of the throbbing please.  This is a family show.

Could be there are too many posters approaching senility who have written the equivalent of a novel on here.

Too many lefties the main problem.
Most of them are incapable of reasoned debate and throw abuse like confetti at anyone who disagrees with them.
Normally following the lead from their cult heroes.

all true

but still dryer than Abbott

The forum is well and truly banjaxed and has been so for ages

Even in this thread - the same people (and believe it or not you ARE in the majority on here) blaming 'The lefties'

The truth is most 'not bothered much about politics much' or 'moderate', or 'left-leaning' don't use the forum much under the sheer weight of numbers spouting loads of:
Trump is great, or Corbyn is bad, or BBC is biased, or the Guardian, blah blah blah.

Have a read through as many threads as you want and have a count-up of who says what - On this thread, rockinron and akabula, but there are so many more on a load of threads and its why I barely look in any more and why many people who used to use the forum use it either less or not at all.

and all the insults from liberal thinkers  - like 'jack booted nazi,  imbecile, weird, etc etc

and this from the liberal theorists 

tell me about it

Logged the traffic to n from this forum again. Two requests that are called from the CSS file fail to download and eventually Timeout..........

https://cache.betfair.com/l/i13n/latest/i13n-min.js
https://cache.betfair.com/l/i13n/latest/deps.js

moisok, i refuse to believe this is the only place you've ever been call an imbecile, weird, etc

You have to spell Liverpool's latest signings name with asterisks for some reason. It's his surname ffs, the forum world's gone mad.

I don’t suppose the forum holds much value to bf these days.
In the days of growth it would have been a vehicle to promote the product.
We are long past that, innovation all but stopped, the tech sold off and the margins then came from focussing profit from the users internally, many of whom then departed.

Therein lies the truth, dustybin.
Many of the people running it lost their jobs and now the whole forum is a side line being sort of, nearly, looked after in Malta.
It certainly isn't used for promoting the brand anymore, I get the impression it is 'tolerated'.

The Betfair forum was one of the best things on the entire interweb and it won't ever be as it was.

Betfair must be kicking themselves that they never cashed in on the potential of the forum to be a money earner in its own right.
Look at all this advertising space going to waste. The old forum has over a quarter of the page blank.
Of course it's a bit late now, but in the old days this place had a lot more posters to attract advertisers.