Tapatalk RIP for RFF Deactivated

Actually, I've only just noticed that the random gallery images have disappeared, along with the classifieds from the home page. :eek:

I can't believe I've only just noticed that ... I obviously need another coffee! :D
 
I just noticed that myself! The classified app (new from a few months ago I believe) seems to have hiccups now and then. I see quite a few "double postings" of listings, for example.

Keith said:
Actually, I've only just noticed that the random gallery images have disappeared, along with the classifieds from the home page. :eek:

I can't believe I've only just noticed that ... I obviously need another coffee! :D
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Sounds like everyone is getting a taste of rural living. What you're describing is the internet at its best for many of us.
 
Keith said:
I thought it was improved a day or so ago but last night and this morning it's being very flakey again.

I find it difficult to judge at times because I have satelite broadband due to the area I live in having no other options! It's rubbish ... it drops out randomly at least once day and costs an arm and a leg in this country ... and a lot of Aussies are forced to use it because of our geography and smal population.
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It was so slow this afternoon (Eastern US) that my browser timed out just trying to get to RFF. All other sites were normal. RFF is generally slow these days but this afternoon was so slow as to be unusable.
 
Glad to see it back to normal--but where have the classifieds gone?
A series of three or four pictures used to appear at the bottom of the opening page.
I miss 'em!
PaulB
 
sepiareverb said:
Sounds like everyone is getting a taste of rural living. What you're describing is the internet at its best for many of us.
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Rural living ... sort of! :D

I live twenty five minutes drive away from Brisbane's city centre in a small suburb (suburbette?) that because it only has nine houses doesn't qualify for any attention from Telstra regrding infrastructure improvements ... now or in the future! :p
 
I believe there are efforts underway to determine the cause(s) and fix the variable performance we've been seeing on the site recently. I'll guess the removal of the gallery thumbnails and the recent ads from the front page is a test (along with the Tapatalk issue) to assess the effects on loading speed.
 
If feedback helps, RFF has always loaded fine for me with ads and thumbnails. I have only experienced problems since Tapatalk was initiated.
 
Any forum I frequent that has installed tapatalk in the past invariably have had problems. The sites were slow, non loading or sections of the site unreachable.
Here's just one example below...

"Tapatalk Has Been Removed
We have had to remove the Tapatalk mobile phone application from ***** 101. It was being used to distribute malware through this site and almost got us blacklisted by Google. We recommend that you use the Forum Runner app instead if you are accessing ***** 101 from a mobile phone."
 
Yesterday evening, RFF was not accessible for me, but this morning (my time) everything is working fine, including tapatalk. Please keep it; very handy application !

Stefan.
 
Keith said:
Rural living ... sort of! :D

I live twenty five minutes drive away from Brisbane's city centre in a small suburb (suburbette?) that because it only has nine houses doesn't qualify for any attention from Telstra regrding infrastructure improvements ... now or in the future! :p
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We have a somewhat similar situation. We're about 35 miles east of Vancouver in a suburban/rural community of about 120,00 population which is pretty much blanketed by high speed internet--either cable or ADSL or both in many cases. By a strange quirk of how the power--and hence, the power poles--is distributed in our area we've ended up in a pocket of about 12 homes which have no access to either. Fortunately a couple years ago a business next door installed a wireless service--transmitted from a 1000 ft. hill a couple miles away--and they feed a signal to us. It's a business oriented service and, as such, is pretty reliable and quite fast. I do periodic tests and usually get speeds in the range of 3-4 mbps. It was a major improvement from the dial-up we were stuck with before...
 
LKeithR said:
We have a somewhat similar situation. We're about 35 miles east of Vancouver in a suburban/rural community of about 120,00 population which is pretty much blanketed by high speed internet--either cable or ADSL or both in many cases. By a strange quirk of how the power--and hence, the power poles--is distributed in our area we've ended up in a pocket of about 12 homes which have no access to either. Fortunately a couple years ago a business next door installed a wireless service--transmitted from a 1000 ft. hill a couple miles away--and they feed a signal to us. It's a business oriented service and, as such, is pretty reliable and quite fast. I do periodic tests and usually get speeds in the range of 3-4 mbps. It was a major improvement from the dial-up we were stuck with before...
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Fortunately in OZ if you can't get broadband through the normal providers there's a government subsidy that covers the cost of the rather expensive satelite receiving gear that goes on your roof which if you had to pay for it would cost you $3000.00 + :eek:

It's not all that fast though and the monthly gigabyte allowance is pretty pitiful ... even on an eighty dollar per month plan!
 
Its slow again today. Funny thing is: if I click on the last post of thread arrow thingy from a list threads, the progress bar shows the page downloading but nothing happens. There is a delay and then suddenly it pops into view. I put this down to some dodgy javascript/Jquery/Ajax processing that has been recently installed.
 
I couldn't get onto RFF at all yesterday, either from desktop or Tapatalk.

All seems okay now but please don't take away TT comparability, I actually prefer using it to the standard desktop version of RFF (except for the Classifieds, of course)

/hides from rotten eggs
 
Keith said:
Fortunately in OZ...

It's not all that fast though and the monthly gigabyte allowance is pretty pitiful ... even on an eighty dollar per month plan!
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I just visited melbourne after an absence of 8 years and man, the broadband network in Oz is still in a pitiful state. Wtf have Telstra and Optus been doing with themselves all these years??
 
pixelatedscraps said:
I just visited melbourne after an absence of 8 years and man, the broadband network in Oz is still in a pitiful state. Wtf have Telstra and Optus been doing with themselves all these years??
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For comparison: here in Kyrgyzstan, whose per-capita GDP is ranked 144th in the world, I get 100 Mbps Cat-5 ethernet to the home, and I live neither in a business district nor a gated expat community.
 
we've got a similar kind of connection here Keith, via a radio connection, and while it can be faster than satellite it is at least as iffy. Generally I have connection speeds in the Kbps range. 40-60 is blistering fast.

Vermont is hilly an our former governor gave huge tax breaks to the former phone company to wire up all the hollows and small towns. They took the breaks for years, did almost nothing then sold all of Vermont to a company that went bankrupt a year later.

AT&T just brought 3G to a nearby town, that connection is far faster than what I can get at home. One of the many factors in our move to town in a few months.



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