This site drains the battery to my phone like no other. Can anything be done?

i liked the website from around 2015. it was nice

keep em bouncin wrote:

Erik the web guy simply doesnt have the skillset to implement a robust website. What you see here with the ad problems, page load time, overall user experience and abundance of third party embedly plugins is pure laziness.

That would make sense. This page takes 27 seconds to "load" and it is just spinning around failing to get adverts, my browser's console is full errors for "Blocked a frame with origin "

; from accessing a frame with origin "https;:// <some advert network>"...

Yeah my phone wasn’t 92% when I started reading this thread and a few minutes later it’s at 14%. And even with it plugged in it just stays even. Doesnt even charge.

This site performs quite well from a Chromebook - still a ton of ads and seems to be more and more video ads which are certainly crushing your phone.

The good 'ol days....

http://web.archive.org/web/20010124072800/http://www.letsrun.com/forum/

keep em bouncin wrote:

Letsrun was pressured to improve their site compared to other running forums out there and also more importantly combat spam and trolls.

The problem is that Weldon and Robert and that is the extent of their understanding with technology. Computer turned on, wifi router set up by cable guy, no need to go further.

Erik the web guy simply doesnt have the skillset to implement a robust website. What you see here with the ad problems, page load time, overall user experience and abundance of third party embedly plugins is pure laziness.

Makes you wonder what would happen if a competing site appeared on the scene with an inherently pleasant user experience, and started siphoning traffic off this site.

I'm sure that's a scenario the owners of the top running website in the world have included in their business plan!

So now I guess I'm wondering when they'll upgrade their website to secure themselves against a bid from a well-run competitor.

tickticktick

Not sh!t posting helps

New Black Polished Chrome wrote:

This site performs quite well from a Chromebook - still a ton of ads and seems to be more and more video ads which are certainly crushing your phone.

+1

Chromebook with adblock, the site runs fine and is quick.

Runningart2004 wrote:

The good 'ol days....

http://web.archive.org/web/20010124072800/http://www.letsrun.com/forum/

Just clicked on that archive. It's incredibly annoying that the LR forum 2001 is a vast improvement over the LR forum of today.

How do things go so horribly wrong? Oh, I know: "Our studies show that we can fill up to 80% of someone's visual field (with ads) before we induce a seizure."

Tangent alert: when it comes to software, we are constantly reinventing a less efficient wheel. For instance, Scheme is a FP language directly inspired from the Lambda calculus (with closures to make the implicit on a sheet of math paper explicit for mechanization) with awesome properties like homoiconicity [code is data] and data structure uniformity (everything is a list), facilitating powerful concepts like meta-linguistic abstraction. However, because people wouldn't take the time to learn something slightly different yet more poweful, we get all kinds of crazy workarounds that never add up to the original.

I don’t know about all that, but I know I was on this site for less than 2 minutes, and lost 10% of my battery.

I was thinking something similar on a run yesterday! I am just a hobby programmer, so you added a level of depth that I cannot speak to. It feels like the old LRC site is just very simple, but efficient in what it does. It's like a horse. It's just a horse. But this new site is like two people who climbed into a horse costume and are trying their best to add a FEW new features to that simple horse. But now those two people, smart as they are, are doing a WORSE job of being a horse. Two humans in a suit also have more complicated resource requirements, meaning the new site consumes more (and different) resources than a simple horse would.

This thread proved all but impossible to load today. Repeated reboots, eventual error messages in which the page refused to load at all. Finally, this site threw me off my own internet completely. Letsrun, please heal thyself.

Unbelievably, the problem is now worse. It drains energy on my phone even while plugged in. I just haven’t been coming to the site very much lately, after a few years of visiting regularly. I may download ad blocker software, if I can find something trustworthy. It makes me sad, because I enjoy coming here.

I wish someone from letsrun would reply to this thread and tell us what can be done.

keep em bouncin wrote:

Letsrun was pressured to improve their site compared to other running forums out there and also more importantly combat spam and trolls.

The problem is that Weldon and Robert and that is the extent of their understanding with technology. Computer turned on, wifi router set up by cable guy, no need to go further.

Erik the web guy simply doesnt have the skillset to implement a robust website. What you see here with the ad problems, page load time, overall user experience and abundance of third party embedly plugins is pure laziness.

The real problem is that LetsRun is an extremely ugly bastion of racism and this prevents it from making money the way that high traffic, respectable websites do. Running companies don’t want their affiliate marketing links posted next to “why are all blacks stupid?” posts. This website is an embarrassment and the only way it can make money is by plastering each page with so many ads that it’s non functional unless you’re using an ad blocker.

It could make money by switching to reddit-style boards. Include upvoting and downvoting so the troll comments disappear and the knowledgeable posters would come back and start contributing again. Only registered usernames allowed.

Runningart2004 wrote:

Yea I miss the old site. Miss the REALLY old site.

The site is the slowest I have ever seen. At some point I'll just stop coming. But I'm not the target demographic. Teenage and College runners like to bamter and troll each other because they all think they know everything....been there :)

Alan

Pirate/Cat/Gun girl.

I have rarely looked at LRC from my phone for some years because the ads are so bad (recently tried, and this hasn't changed) and it's the only site that consistently that seemed like it would have those pop-up ads that would basically take over my iphone unless I exited Safari. I pretty much can only look at the site from my laptop with an ad-blocker. It's true: they really should fix this site. I guess they make more money this way, so no incentive to do so?

Mikeh33 wrote:

The last version of this thread disappeared. Not sure why. Anyway, this message board will suck 30% off my battery life in 20 - 30 minutes of usage. Anything can be done about this letsrun.com? Thanks!

I downloaded an ad blocker some weeks ago, really just to visit this site without it sucking the life from my phone in minutes. It seemed to help a little for a while, but often it doesn’t matter whether I have the ad blocker on or not, The battery is reduced to half its life or worse in 15-20 minutes. Literally there is not another site on the web (that I visit anyway) that does this to my phone.

Surf it on a desktop or plugged in laptop. Never on your phone.