[2020-05-20] Minor update finished

Hi there,

I just applied a few security patches. You shouldn’t notice any changes, but if you do run into any new bugs please report them here.

Thanks a lot! Have fun.

You da man

SB, thanks for all your hard work keeping BLF running! :+1:

I don't mind new bugs. Most of them are small, unnoticeable and very high quality protein. Only a few new bugs are dangerous, such as those new murder hornets, that are big, scary and dangerous. Thanks for keeping our login info secure; nobody knows who I am, and I want it to stay that way. If I post about about how excited I am about a light with a large battery supply and one teeensy eeensy weeensy led that can run for months in highest mode, that's how you can tell that my account has been hacked.

Thanks again for the friendly flashlight community!

+1

I really like it here, and the site works very well.

This. :+1:

Thanks for keeping BLF safe sb56637!

Mate the site has been getting very very very slow for me since, sometimes it hangs completely and has to be restarted - just keeps spinning…. it’s sporadic too, like sometimes pages seem to ‘shoot’ in, like it was backlogged? or catching up. It’s worse sometimes more than others, the worst this morning though.
I tried it on Edge as well as the usual Firefox and it’s doing it on both. Other websites work fine, download is measured at max.
Any ideas?

Another friend is having the same issues. I seem to be ok when not logged in - when I try to login, or eventually do get logged in it slows until it stops. If I post I have to close the browser to go any further - though it obviously does post before it hangs or you wouldn’t be reading this lol!

Something is definitely wrong with the site.

I was getting 504 Gateway Time-outs left and right.

Now it's very tough to surf or to post on BLF.

It loads veeeeeeery slowly. :(

Was acting strange yesterday trying to post with pics, I would hit preview and it would jump back to the start of post. Blank. Did it several times during the afternoon.

Been loading slow or timing out since last evening also…

I’m getting the same thing too, specially when I try to open it from the mail notifications on the phone (via Gmail app).
When I open it via Chrome (also on the phone) it loads less quickly than it used to do. :zipper_mouth_face:

When l tap ‘enter’, the loading bar that starts on the left hand side appears but stops at about half an inch, then stays there from 30 secs to about a minute or so that l simply acknowledge there’s a bug at the moment and will ironed out by our sb (our great admin and owner of BLF for the unawares).

Yes, intermittently slow at the time of this posting.

I am experiencing slow performance on BLF as well

yeah slow forums here for me today……

Strange…just before typing this…tapping the blue ‘new post’ is fast, but tapping on the ‘recent post’ still incurs significant delay somewhat.

BLF server isn't working well for me either in the last 2-3 days. I click a link and it doesn't load at all, even if I way several minutes. I click the same link a couple times more and suddenly it loads as if everything were normal.

Edit: when I first tried to post this comment nothing happened, went back and forward, clicked "save" again and it posted immediately ..

BLF server isn't working well for me either in the last 2-3 days. I click a link and it doesn't load at all, even if I way several minutes. I click the same link a couple times more and suddenly it loads as if everything were normal.

Edit2: I did NOT double post this .. server is really having issues.

Resolved, this issue was unrelated to the updates applied. Please continue the discussion of the recent performance issues here: