It is possible, even probable, that we will be doing some maintenance on the software that powers the blog.
If there are any interruptions or bumps along the way, that’s why.
UPDATE 8 March 1654 GMT:
The software that powers the blog and some of the plugins have been updated. That’s why some blank screens were coming up for a while.
The next step is to migrate the whole shootin’ match to different server.
There are still some updates to be done, but the major work is finished for now.
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on Two macabre images come together: “@Joe I heard Francis has already opened his own cause eliminating the previous requirement of death because it is not…”
on Newly Catholic, formerly Anglican bishop has some goals. Wherein Fr. Z offers thoughts.: “Father Nazir should assume that the TLM will be abolished and concentrate on saving the Ordinariate. Lord have mercy.”
on Newly Catholic, formerly Anglican bishop has some goals. Wherein Fr. Z offers thoughts.: “Modernists and Liberals have been dividing the Church and pushing a hateful agenda for decades. Thanks be to God we…”
on A “unique” expression of the Roman Rite. But remember… it’s the Traditional Latin Mass that’s the big threat.: “Kathleen10: “There’s an underlying narcissism and self-absorption at work. You don’t matter. He does. This is not a good look…”
on UPDATE on Fr. Christensen (ALS) and Seven Sisters Apostolate – Good news!: “On it, since you first told us about Father, and as per instruction (Fulton Sheen only).” on ASK FATHER: Blessing of guns and ammo: “Conversation starters: Preparing your church congregation https://survivalblog.com/2010/02/03/preparing-your-church-congrega/ Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership http://jpfo.org/ Si vis pacem, para bellum.”
on UPDATE on Fr. Christensen (ALS) and Seven Sisters Apostolate – Good news!: “The Fair Penelope and I expect to visit Fr. Christensen in about 8 days. I shall post after we return.”
on A “unique” expression of the Roman Rite. But remember… it’s the Traditional Latin Mass that’s the big threat.: “Jflare, I don’t think we’d disagree that the TLM is better posed, when faithfully presented, to foster true religion, but…” on ASK FATHER: Blessing of guns and ammo: ““Invite your priest for some skeet shooting” and “SDFs may require a chaplain or chaplains” means faithful and patriotic (see…”
on ASK FATHER: If women can’t be priests, can they be deacons?: “Just yesterday, on the broadcast of the Ordination of +Guido Marini, the Spanish-language narrator for the Holy See made a…” on ASK FATHER: Blessing of guns and ammo: “All fifty states and DC have laws on the books establishing and regulating State Defense Forces. In some states SDFs…”
on A “unique” expression of the Roman Rite. But remember… it’s the Traditional Latin Mass that’s the big threat.: “Lurker and others, methinks you well demonstrate the opposing point. Men well-trained in the TLM DID give us the e…”
on Episcopal cathedral in Albuqerque to insult the Church by hosting a fake ordination of a Jesuit-trained “wymyn”. Wherein Fr. Z makes a proposal.: “From a progressive catholic point of view, the idea of women priests is actually quite reactionary. Why, the German bishops…” on ASK FATHER: Can a bishop forbid people from attending Masses of the SSPX?: “@TonyO The entire situation of the SSPX has a long and confusing history. There’s much debate no doubt. My opinion…”
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Thank God. Your website is so clunky with all of the extra side-bar stuff, and my internet isn’t exactly bad or anything.
[Thanks for your kind words of support.]
Clunky? Ouch!!
Fr. Z said maintenance, not redesign….
Oh, some redesigning wouldn’t go amiss. Using Adblock Pro, I put the hamster and the dog to sleep a couple of months ago, and the blog is much, much quicker to load. Nor does Firefox peg my CPU when the page is displayed.
I’m thinking some readers like the blog as is or why be here?
Keep dog and hamster!
I find that the site is slow and sometimes just freezes on my desktop and laptop, running either Firefox or Chrome. But it is great running Firefox for Android on my new tablet, an ASUS Transformer 101. Unfortunately, FF for Android doesn’t have a video plug-in, so I have to switch to the bundled browser or the YouTube player. I don’t use the bundled browser all the time because for this site alone it won’t give me the whole page, just a sort of capsule for each blog item that can be expanded and nothing of the sidebar.
I don’t know whether the planned maintenance will affect any of this, but I like the design just fine. Thanks, Fr. Z!
Loading the main page is a noticeable strain on the memory, but then again, I’m running Vista, so my computer is already like that motor oil commercial with the car dragging a piano behind it, so I’m slower to fault any given website for my computer’s difficulty handling it.
Until I can upgrade operating systems, and for anyone else who is having similar trouble, I’ve found Chrome to be a much more nimble browser, less prone than Firefox to reaching a saturation point on memory and throwing in the towel.
Wow, brutal crowd here today, Father? Your blog is absolutely fantastic, I wouldn’t change a thing.
Will D: You killed Basil? For shame! I like Basil & Yellow Dog [used to have a yellow dog]. What’s Yellow Dog’s name?
[the 1st time I tried to post this, it previewed, then disappeared]
Basil’s still here, oakdiocesegirl … at least on Firefox… I feed him nearly every. Father, could you add a cat? Tell these old gripers to get some RAM or a life or something. And I LOVE this blog. I put every other blog in a folder called Lent and am not reading them , but I couldn’t do it to this one.
every DAY… duh
oakdiocesegirl: I liked ’em too, until I started wondering why, when I loaded this site, the fan on my CPU started spooling up like a 747 revving its engines for takeoff. There’s some flaw in the flash code in those widgets, I guess, because when I blocked them, the CPU fan resumed its more sedate whirring.
NoTambourines: You’re right, Chrome seems to have a much more efficient memory manager. Having said that, the most recent version of Firefox is much improved over its predecessors. I’m running 10.0.2.
Thank God. Your website is so clunky with all of the extra side-bar stuff, and my internet isn’t exactly bad or anything.
Wow, that was affirming.
Am running an old Dell Dimension 8400 running XP SP3 and laboring under the burden of 87 (yes 87) processes including the ultimate resource hog WD SmareWare with WD Quick View and WDTPRS runs fine. It loads about as fast as anything else.
I would agree that the embedded video of the priests talk on the HHS issue was blank, but the reason for that has already been made clear.
I don’t have any technical issues with the site except it does crash my BlackBerry browser, but I use Opera anyway and it works just fine.
OOOPS: Maybe I spoke too soon. I just receive a strange error message: “You are posting too quickly. Please slow down.” (This is not a joke, I really did receive that message!)
Posting too quickly?
Is this in relation to the admonition “Think before posting?”
o{];¬)
Just checked with the Pingdom Speed Test tool, and the performance grade for this blog is 70/100 with a load time of 5.96 seconds. It could be better, but that’s not bad! I have never experienced any problems on my PC. I use Chrome. Firefox used to be decent, but became incredibly clunky. It can be a bit slow to load completely on my iPad when a post has garnered a lot of comments, but it’s worth the wait.
I think it’s wonderful that a traditional, holy priest has embraced internet technology and social media the way Father Z has! He is reaching a vast audience with a good message and doing a great service for God.
Father, I know you have people who help you out with your site, but if you ever need further assistance feel free to email me anytime–I have experience with WordPress coding and optimization, and graphic design. [Do you have a site or a portfolio?]
I worked out a bug in my contact forms on the top menu. They should work now.
I use Mozilla Firefox browser Version 10.0.2 and have no issues with WDTPRS. I also use the ad blocker application that Fr.Z uses and it does the job! FYI, I have a computer with an Intel Core i3 processor and Windows 7 OS.
Father,
My own blog is at http://www.jenspends.com (I don’t link to it in my profile here only because it’s not in any way related to Catholicism). Another WordPress example is http://www.emilyrosecole.com which I designed for a friend. Unfortunately I don’t have a professional portfolio website together yet, but I plan to in the future.