Pictures delayed or not opening

mapleman

Has any one else experienced significant delays and at times failure of pictures to open?
I've had it forum wide for last couple of days on my desktop. My Smartphone seems ok if a bit slow.

Downtown1974

Yea, there’s a lot of stuff going haywire here lately.

mapleman

For sure. I hope it's resolved soon.

joeykoins

maybe, NGC is taking over?

kbbpll

They implemented some kind of "checking your browser" delay thing a while back on price guide. Maybe they have rolled it out to the forum behind the scenes? Supposedly to prevent DOS attack, at least on the regular site.

davids5104

my android smartphone loads all the forum very slowly now. no delay while on PC

Timbuk3

Having problems while using my IPhone !!! :'(

ricko

No problems with pictures - only the 'answered' anomaly .... and seems to be more rampant today...Cheers, RickO

ReadyFireAim

I keep getting "your post will appear after it has been approved" or something to that effect.
So far as I know, I'm not on any kind of behavior "time out".

Did somebody break the forum again?
Boss is not going to be happy on Monday.

mapleman

@davids5104 said:
my android smartphone loads all the forum very slowly now. no delay while on PC

My Androidd phone loads a bit slow my i.e. desktop is a major issue.

mapleman

Houston we have a problem....

RogerB

I suspect this is a user problem, not a system or software issue.

Many recently posted photos appear to have been made using cell phones. Images from these things are too large for prompt display over the internet and PCGS system. Some have requested that posters crop photos and downsize to about 700 pixel width, but those ideas have been ridiculed as unnecessary.

Slow image load is the penalty for not following those simple, common sense suggestions.

Here's a sample from Kkathy's post about a 1936 S/S nickel and 1968 D cents. Charmay's recent ANA show thread is another example. The posters are doing what a cell phone users would be expected to do with a photo. But if efficient display is important, then image must be reduced in size before posting. (The PCGS software does not do this automatically. That is good for anyone copying an image where getting maximum detail is desired, but makes viewing uncomfortably slow.)

First photo in the post is 3024x3024 pixels and about 3.6 meg in JPG format.
Crop extraneous portions and convert to grayscale and the image is 2406x2042 and 2.29 meg.
Resize to maximum PCGS display size, and the image is 700x594 and 263 k. (shown below)

This fills the sub-screen (cell) width and that's all that can be shown. Visible detail matches the cropped grayscale image.

mapleman

Thanks for the info.
Problem or issue is at least for my pics is that my pics, all phone have never been an issue before last few days and mine are not the only one's at issue for me and apparently others here.