[breaking usual Saturday-morning silence]
Please let me know via comment or email if you are having difficulty accessing Running After My Hat.
Note: By “difficulty” I don’t mean flat-out impossibility — it might be just extreme sluggishness, unresponsiveness, and so on. All but impossibility counts — especially if there’s been a notable change in that direction! (If you, and only you, have ALWAYS had this problem, well…)
I’ve received one comment to this effect already, but it came from China-based Froog. He’s accustomed to late May/early June slowdowns: [irony alert on] for some reason [irony alert off] the authorities there become exceptionally nervous around this time every year, screwing down the lid on Internet access even more than usual. But this year some pages have proved unloadable for him.
No idea if this is something anyone else has experienced. Haven’t made any recent changes to the blog’s theme or plug-ins and so on. Still… Just wanted to check.
[returning to customary Muzak soundtrack]
DarcKnyt says
No problems from my side, JES. Your page has always taken a hair longer than most to load, but it loads just fine every time.
The Querulous Squirrel says
Hasn’t there been some hacking shenanigans from China interfering with Google this week? Your blog always takes the longest to load of any others I visit. Seemed as usual today.
cynth says
So, the last post was the 4th, right? ‘Cause I don’t see anything after that and if there were something after that, then yes, I’m have a problem. Did that make sense??
Froog says
I left a post here on Tuesday morning (Monday evening for you), apologising for having stirred your anxieties.
That went astray somehow? Victim of voracious spam filter?
I was saying that my difficulties with RAMH had been steadily lightening over the last few days. China’s censorship efforts peak on 6/4, and seem to slacken off almost immediately. ‘Subversion’, they seem to feel, is a strictly seasonal phenomenon. The filtering is so extreme that connectivity gets gummed up and slow-loading sites start failing to load at all, even via a VPN.
Treacly – but sort of workable – connection speeds on Sunday and Monday were probably due to it being a national holiday here (Duanwu Jie, the Dragon Boat Festival – one of those whose date moves around because of the eccentricities of the lunar calendar). Many Chinese youngsters have little idea what to do with leisure time other than play online games; hence, on holidays, the Internet gets almost unusably slow, without any additional interference from the censors.
By Tuesday, things were getting back to ‘normal’.
John says
Froog: glad to hear it was only temporary!
But based on other comments I got (here and elsewhere) on the subject, it appears that regulars must have to put up with a lot of thumb-twiddling just to read most of my (characteristically ruminative (to be polite)) posts… This bothers me a lot. Not sure what actions to take. Yet.
Froog says
By the by, Margo Timmins was in Beijing over the weekend. My friend Karen met her and the rest of the band after the show. I am so envious.
I missed both the show and the post-show schmoozing. I am in such a sulk.
Perhaps it’s just as well, though. I fear I would have embarrassed myself in her presence – or afterwards: I am never going to wash this hand again…
ReCaptcha is indeed being strange these days. None of those amusing ‘character names’ it was giving us a year or two back. I’ve been struck not so much by the occasional difficulty of umlauts and cedillas and mathematical symbols, as by the fact that the first word of the pair so often seems to be complete gibberish lately.
ontaysi funds?! What’s that all about??