Question Cursor Progress/Wait Indicator

Posting this in general because I couldn't find any other discussions and I feel like there is no way I am the first person to ask this question, haha... so maybe a terminology issue.

I host on a pretty strong VPS and my site overall moves fairly swiftly. Occasionally Kunena functions a moment. Nothing too crazy, though.

The "issue" is that there is no real indication given that something is happening if it doesn't complete right away. The small amount of browser-given info (like, contacting www.site.com ...) is become less and less obvious as time goes by and instead relying on site hints to communicate these things.

Many site frameworks, forums, etc do this via a change in mouse cursor or some sort of on-screen indicator that just conveys that something is happening and the user should wait (not click submit over and over and over).

Anything like this exist for Kunena? If not, perhaps I will seek out assistance in the custom paid or unpaid sections.

Thanks in advance.

There is unfortunately no wait indicator upon submitting a request to the server built into Kunena. There is a indicator by your browser though because the request is being sent.

I would suggest maybe some JS to disable the submit button after first click. Unfortunately how to do that is out of scope of what we can help with.

G'day, DrSuSE, and welcome to Kunena.

I don't understand how a website running on a "pretty strong VPS" would be encountering delays that were sufficiently long that suggested an AJAX-driven status bar indicator to show that something was happening. Can you give some examples where, within the forum context, this could be seen to be beneficial.

For example, if people post their messages here on this forum, the response time (from pressing the submit button to seeing the new post appearing on the page) is usually one or two seconds. For the period of one or two seconds, this need to display a status bar hardly seems justified and, in my opinion, this is an unnecessary overhead that may detract from the primary purpose (which is to successfully submit a message to the forum).

You will also see (at the foot of this page) the "Time to create page". As you can see, on this site, the time to create this page is very short (less than 1/10th of one second).

DrSuSE: Can you give us some idea of the time delays that are occurring on your site that suggest the benefit of having a "wait status" indicator? If you are experiencing unusually long delays in response times, perhaps these are indicative of something else that's running on your site or on the server and, perhaps, your line of investigation should be to examine what may be other sources of activity that are resulting in degradation of performance as far as your forum is concerned?

coder4life wrote: There is unfortunately no wait indicator upon submitting a request to the server built into Kunena. There is a indicator by your browser though because the request is being sent.

I would suggest maybe some JS to disable the submit button after first click. Unfortunately how to do that is out of scope of what we can help with.

The browser will have an indication that is is sending/receiving a request from the server, this information varies from browser to browser, for example on Chrome it is a text message on the bottom left of the page.