Forum: Bug Report and Feature Requests

For those of us who have Premier membership, "old" entries (we have already seen) have a different - shaded - background. This applies on the Home page, New Stories and Updates.
For the past few weeks I have been seeing a somewhat different behaviour, although I can only remember having seen it on the Home page.
The home page is displayed with no shading at all, then - in a separate step - all entries after a certain point have the shading introduced. The second stage normally happens a second after the first one, sometimes it is almost instantaneous, but sometimes it can be delayed by anything up to a minute.

Desktop, a Firefox derivate, Linux.
My connection is nominally very fast (300Mb) but can also be very slow on bad days - down to 0.72Mb in one benchmark in early November.
Is what I'm seeing an indication that something has changed with SOL or is it down to my internet connection? SOL is mostly text so it feels strange to me that even 0.72Mb could be too slow for the site.

I only see about a 1 or 2 second delay for the shading on the home page.

The only behavior I have seen that sounds like that is the shading that shows where the story listing started the last time you entered that tab. As an example, I went to another tab on this window, then came back to the main page. Story entries that were not grayed before I left, were now greyed. In other words, the system keeps track of the first entry it displayed this time, and when you come back to this page, all the displayed entries starting with that one are greyed. I think of it as showing me which story entries I have not seen ever, including stories I have previously seen that have been modified since that time.
I hope this is making sense, I don't know how else to describe it.