Faster Page Loading & the new Safe Feed

• Posted by Katie Glover September 16, 2017 Filed in Member's Blogs #PHP Page Load Times  2,862 views
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  Hi gang, as you know we are constantly trying to improve everything about Transtastic but it's an ongoing job, a bit like painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge.  It never stops.
  
  We have not been idle in the last week.  Apart from fixing a few annoying little bugs we also attempted to install our new Safe Feed system which should prevent Adult pics from appearing in the activity Feed on our main logged-in page for those who have selected the moderated feed.
  
  Unfortunately, the new code gobbled up all of our server's memory and made it crash so it was removed and the developers are now trying to figure out what went wrong.  Hopefully, they will have it fixed in the next few days.
  
  And in the last few hours we attempted to upgrade our PHP version from 5.x to 7.1.  That should make the site faster all round and reduce page load times by quite a lot.
  
  However, it appears that some things on the site are not compliant with PHP 7.1 and a number of features (like the chat room) have simply stopped working.  We'll need to go through each one in turn and fix whatever is wrong. Sorry, it may take a few days. Don't you hate computers! On the upside, our pages should now be loading much faster than before though.
  
  Please bear with us while this important work takes place and things will be better on the other side.

  Hugs,
  
  Katie