TradeMe slow the last few weeks?

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spacedog

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#303596 21-Feb-2023 09:58

Is it just me or has TradeMe been increasingly unreliable and slow the last month or so?

I routinely find that if I click Add to Watchlist, or Add to Cart, TradeMe will display a spinning circle and it will spin for 15-30 seconds before completing the action. Sometimes it never completes at all and then if I reload the page, I'm logged out and forced to log back in again.

Even going to MyTradeMe and trying to load my Watchlist, Items Won, Sold or Lost can have the same result. I'm on a fibre connection and I don't seem to have these kinds of issues with other sites. And generally TradeMe has been pretty responsive, but as of late, it seems like the hamsters in the server room are routinely on smoko breaks?

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#3039928 21-Feb-2023 10:06

Yup, its their "new" layout etc and whatever is driving it is obviously underpowered. Have sent them a message advising they need to look at its usage because its killing the site.

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#3039932 21-Feb-2023 10:16

you are bang on, its a PITA recently to use on the regular

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#3039933 21-Feb-2023 10:17

Good to know it’s not just mine.

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#3039934 21-Feb-2023 10:18

I have found that sometimes its fast as I would expect, but when its slow its REALLY slow. And sometimes seems to be falling back to loading the whole page instead of just refreshing the part that needs to change like they are clearly trying to make it do.

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spacedog

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#3039936 21-Feb-2023 10:23

Ok, good to know it's not me because it's excruciatingly slow at times now...

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#3039938 21-Feb-2023 10:25

Yep, I've noticed the snails pace on more than one occasion. Sometimes failing to load completely.

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#3039940 21-Feb-2023 10:31

I have taken to middle click opening everything in a new tab so it fully loads things instead of doing the fancy stuff, seems more reliable even if a little slower each time, the lack of long freeze up makes it faster overall.

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#3039950 21-Feb-2023 10:53

It's been getting slower and slower, but the new design has definitely made it worse. My understanding is they are looking at re-architecting the back end to help improve things as the current architecture is getting pretty old.

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#3039972 21-Feb-2023 11:22

With afterpay I havent been able to buy stuff through several different browsers/operating systems.

I've had to add it to my wishlist then buy it on my phone.

Not sure if happening with Ping payments/bank transfers.

Groucho

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#3040048 21-Feb-2023 13:57

Yep I've consistently found it slow at both home and work both fibre connections via desktop browsers.

Their new desktop design has a few flaws. One which frustrates me, I have a number of favourite sellers which was fine as the old interface used to show a count of how many items each were selling. Now I have to manually open each seller to check rather than a higher level overview. I submitted a feature request at a guess three months ago, got a generic reply back......

...and that's my story.