Welcome to the new Boards.ie platform - Version 1.0 :)

Thanks for all speed issues + detail - checking.

Following up on speed issues... 

Here is what logs were showing a couple of weeks ago when issues were flagged: 

This shows more than five seconds to load. Cloudflare's status page was showing maintenance was being performed on the Marseille, San Francisco and Toronto data centres that day - while these data centres were offline, traffic was being re-routed to accommodate and we saw a spike in latency to Cloudflare requests in that time. This is something that we expect and have to tolerate during maintenance periods, as the way server traffic is routed isn't always the most effective. 

Here is the same query but against users loading the platform itself: 

About a third of the number take longer than 5 seconds to load, and we see a definite spike appear on the 22nd when Cloudflare was doing it's maintenance. 

In this next log show users loading the site in less than 5 seconds: 

Generally it seems to be follow a consistent pattern (ups and down, based on site traffic): 

What could continue to cause problems is a custom GDPR plugin we built to anonymise users profiles which might be causing some issues. There was a fix implemented before but some issues might have resurfaced - we are investigating that right now.

Vanilla have also been looking at very broad trends on loading times. It would help in further investigation if we could get specific error messages that users are seeing if the site fails to load (the rayID at the bottom is a huge help). If we get a couple of those, we might find a connection in what actions are causing time outs and let us highlight an area for optimisation - so please do continue to share here.

Lastly, another step (which we are in the process of getting onto a staging environment) is moving completely over to Vanilla's Foundation theme. We have flagged this before but not been in a position to implement it. Boards is currently using a custom theme based on Foundation and running a lost of custom plugins as a result - Reducing the amount of custom work the platform needs will help with site performance. We will be sharing more info on that here as we progress.

No it is done in the database then those anonymized names (' deleted user') are allocated random usernames.