Board Game Arena

I'm also experiencing incredibly long loading time recently.

Some specifics:

* on mobile running android chrome
* first time going to lobby worked fine
* after playing a game i hit the bga logo to return to main site. Then the crazy long loading happened (animated bga logo)
* i quit all aps and then started bga again which immediately brought me to main site without long loading
* repeated the same process 3x after playing another game and same moment when the long loading occurred
* edit: next time it didn't.
* it didn't happen like this 1 or 2 weeks ago (i actually never experienced it before, ever)
* 1.30am cest

Even without these exceptionally long waiting I must say that things seem indeed slower recently in general. This was the first time that made me close the app/window because it was so long that i thought i might be better off with a completely new try.

Here's something for you to upvote: https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=71322
It was hard to find in bug reports because search function and bug report interface isn't working well, especially on mobile. I guess that's why it doesn't have more upvotes yet.

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑16 September 2022, 20:23Ed.: Actually, between yesterday and today, things seem to be back to normal for me. I hadn't tried playing yet today.

Today it's back to being sluggish. "It" being the Play Now page loading.

Rautz wrote: ↑16 September 2022, 20:17 I used to play a lot on this site between Feb-Apr this year - the site would load in an instant.
Now I came back to play, and the site is running much slower than usual, for example when I go to https://boardgamearena.com/lobby, it takes 21 seconds to load, after 15 seconds I get Page Unresponsive from Google Chrome, and then another 6 seconds for the actual page to load

Is there some kind of problem with the site, or maybe I have a problem on my end with Chrome? (my Internet connection I believe is very good, so I don't think the problem is there)

Thank you

Ok. Im glad you started this forum. The same exact thing has been happening to me for maybe even a year now. When I asked some other friends they said it doesn't happen for them.

Something that I found useful, as mentioned by someone already is the amount of games in your favorites. Un-heart a lot of them that you arent really keen on on playing at the time. This helped productivity a lot but not really back to normal 100%. There is still something on the lobby page that is slowing it down that probably other people don't have.

Same issued Here. Old Lobby Page worked much better

bga very, very slow. Hardly able to play a game. If not "repared" I will not renew my abonnement on this cite

I'm encountering similar issues. It's been especially a bad the last two days around this time (5pm EST). I can't tell if it's the entire site or a specific host server that's dragging things down. Connection speed is 50MB+, and cache is clear.

Edit - Each time I notice it loading slow it seems to be server #9.

juletrae wrote: ↑17 October 2022, 12:58 bga very, very slow. Hardly able to play a game. If not "repared" I will not renew my abonnement on this cite

Just seems very slow in the last day or so. Not usually like this.

I find its specifically when opening the play now section. Unfortunately when you end a game it goes back to the play now by default. ITs dreadfully slow. I removed games from my favorite list and switched to tiny icons which seems to help some.

Going to any other page loads instantly, so easier to leave the site then go back after a game then just leaving the game.

yeah, same for me, it's just the lobby. Although I just tried reporting a bug that took forever too.
Playing games seems fine.

giggs wrote: ↑18 October 2022, 19:32 I find its specifically when opening the play now section. Unfortunately when you end a game it goes back to the play now by default. ITs dreadfully slow. I removed games from my favorite list and switched to tiny icons which seems to help some.

The Play Now page is definitely the culprit. And above people are saying to remove favorites. But if the size of the favorites list wasn't an issue 6 months ago (it wasn't for me) and it is now, then something has changed such that the size of the list cannot be handled anymore. Removing favorites is not addressing whatever the underlying issue is, even if it helps.