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It was super slow intermittently for the past few days.

Think it's the CDN Cloudfront that sucks. Probably the same issue each time.

Anandtech forum should consider switching to another CDN.
 
11:30am CST today, it went from having worked perfectly fine with no delay, to such long delays on page loading that my browser timed out several times. Unusable when it gets like this.
 
Welp, it seems more random now. The past two days, it's gone from timing out one minute to being fine and loading instantly, then it'll go back to timing out a few minutes later. It's practically unusable at the moment, took 5 minutes and three attempts to get into this thread and post about it.
 
I don't know if this will help anyone (I'm not an expert), but thought I would mention this. I rarely have any problems with anandtech, but occasionally, it's just a tad slow, perhaps simply due to internet congestion, or the servers in the path, and not the website itself. Never anything severe. Mostly hardly noticeable.

I use an antiquated browser (seamonkey), but I do have the NoScript extension, which is set to block all javascript except that from anandtech.com. The website has always worked fine with all their other scripts blocked.

Sometimes badly coded javascript can make a web page slow, but I don't know if that's the case here. Just thought I'd mention this. It may be worth a try to block unnecessary scripts as a quick test.
 
SeaMonkey is the best browser ever created, bar none. I use it extensively and I still have the problem. Just happened now in fact coming into this thread to see updates. I don't use uBlock though, but I use AdBlock Plus that blocks a lot of nonsense.
 
504 ERROR

The request could not be satisfied.

CloudFront attempted to establish a connection with the origin, but either the attempt failed or the origin closed the connection. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner.
If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation.
Generated by cloudfront (CloudFront)
Request ID: h7Gxdp06wcYXiJCqBCBWOy4IaeST3I2--HsvMvdHnzZF5Yh1wpXYdg==
 
I visit other sites that use Cloudflare, and have had not one issue with them elsewhere. It's not Cloudflare, it's the different host or servers that Future switched to. It didn't happen until last November-ish. It's been going on for a while and hasn't been addressed. Apparently if it isn't locking up the site 24/7, it's not worth looking at.
 
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Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
504 ERROR

The request could not be satisfied.

CloudFront attempted to establish a connection with the origin, but either the attempt failed or the origin closed the connection. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner.
If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation.
Generated by cloudfront (CloudFront)
Request ID: h7Gxdp06wcYXiJCqBCBWOy4IaeST3I2--HsvMvdHnzZF5Yh1wpXYdg==
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Same thing for me this morning.
 
Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
504 ERROR

The request could not be satisfied.

CloudFront attempted to establish a connection with the origin, but either the attempt failed or the origin closed the connection. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner.
If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation.
Generated by cloudfront (CloudFront)
Request ID: h7Gxdp06wcYXiJCqBCBWOy4IaeST3I2--HsvMvdHnzZF5Yh1wpXYdg==
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I've been getting this a lot the last few days and also on my work computer that i'm on right now, so i know it's not my PC or internet.
 
@Ken g6 It was busier around here back in 2001 than it is now - unfortunately. I wandered off for a while (lurking from time to time) - when I came back in 2010/2011, there was still really good activity on this board. I miss that (particularly in the hardware forums where we still had a fairly large number of people who actually worked in those fields). We still have a few, but they don't post as much.
 
As a point of reference, just want to mention I got the 504 error again, earlier this morning and just now as well. Different devices, different locations with different infrastructure and ISP.
 
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