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gvstn

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3. Discus is the old Haloscan, a very common commenting system.

Sat Jun 27, 2015, 10:46 AM

Jun 2015

RawStory, TMZ and many news sites use it. The wait time for comments to load has become very annoying.

You are right that it seems to be a FF problem but I can't find any mentions of it as a recent problem with a basic search.

What is strange is I also have a portable version of Chrome. When FF won't load Discus comments after a minute or two, if I am really interested in reading the comments, I will copy/paste the link into Chrome and then Discus loads simultaneously in Chrome and FF.

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To your problem, I remembered a post where there were alternative urls/mirrors of DU. You might test a couple of these to see if you get better load times.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4955532

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Increase Browsing Speed in Mozilla Firefox – Speed up Firefox [View all] -none Jun 2015 OP

I've been having trouble with Discus in Firefox. Anyone else? gvstn Jun 2015 #1

I don't know what Discus is, but it sounds like a common Firefox problem. -none Jun 2015 #2

Discus is the old Haloscan, a very common commenting system. gvstn Jun 2015 #3

I don't think the slowness has anything to do with FireFox or Windows... ChromeFoundry Jun 2015 #4

And as for client platform... ChromeFoundry Jun 2015 #5

If it is a DU server problem, then why does it not affect Linux using Firefox? -none Jun 2015 #6

For long threads... ChromeFoundry Jun 2015 #7

fyi steve2470 Jun 2015 #8

I've been annoyed by slow page loading, too, but... TreasonousBastard Jul 2015 #9

I just hit the link to a thread or forum again when the load appears to lag. blogslut Jul 2015 #10

You're welcome. -none Jul 2015 #11