Question User subscriptions and forum performance

Hello everyone. I'm having a problem with my forum. it takes from 8-12 seconds to actually submit a post to a topic. The only thing I can attribute this to is the auto subscribe that I turned on. I turned it on at the request of some users and to keep traffic up on the forum. Is there any reason why it takes that long?

Thank you in advance.

I turned it off and it doesn't seem to make difference. Topics that have only one or two responses post in 5 seconds. Topics that have over 4 pages of responses, take up to 20 seconds.

More testing. So if I hit submit and then quickly press "recent topics", the reply shows up instantly.If I don't do that, it takes up to 20 seconds. I spoke with my server company and they don't know what it could be. I still think it has to do with sending emails out to all subscribers.

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G'day, ninjastar, and welcome to Kunena.

We notice that you have edited your configuration report (I understand your reasons) but you might like to read "Confidential information" - what does that mean? so that you understand our reasons for asking people to not do what you did. We will still try our best to help you without the information you removed but you should also know that it may take a little longer.

ninjastar wrote: The only thing I can attribute this to is the auto subscribe that I turned on.

I do not know anything about the "autosubscribe" feature that you may be using. Are you, perhaps, referring to Auto Subscription for Kunena ?

sozzled wrote: G'day, ninjastar, and welcome to Kunena.

We notice that you have edited your configuration report (I understand your reasons) but you might like to read "Confidential information" - what does that mean? so that you understand our reasons for asking people to not do what you did. We will still try our best to help you without the information you removed but you should also know that it may take a little longer.

ninjastar wrote: The only thing I can attribute this to is the auto subscribe that I turned on.

I do not know anything about the "autosubscribe" feature that you may be using. Are you, perhaps, referring to Auto Subscription for Kunena ?

Thank you for the welcome, Sozzled. I can supply you the link if you like.

Yes, I thought it had to do with the auto subscription and the number of posts made to a particular topic. I've turned the auto subcription off now in Kunena, but barely see a difference.

As I mentioned, if you reply , press "Submit" and quickly press "Recent topics", it seems to update instantly. If you just press "Submit" and wait, it just seems really long to post a reply.

Correction- It is not the Auto subscribe that you pointed me to. It's in the Kunena configuration menu under Users>subscriptions>Topic Subscriptions>Email every update

You are using old Kunena version(3.0.3), latest is 3.0.5.

sozzled: maybe his "autosubscribe" feature is this? --> screencast.com/t/vsjo0pXlCiD

ninjastar wrote: I've turned the auto subcription of in Kunena ...

I will ask you again, what are you referring to? I do not know anything about any automatic subscription feature ("auto subscribe" as you called it) built into Kunena unless, perhaps, you are referring to a privately-developed extension called Auto Subscription for Kunena . Is this what you are talking about?

sozzled wrote:

ninjastar wrote: I've turned the auto subcription of in Kunena ...

I will ask you again, what are you referring to? I do not know anything about any "auto subscription" built into Kunena unless, perhaps, you are referring to a privately-developed extension called Auto Subscription for Kunena . Is this what you are talking about?

Correction- It is not the Auto subscribe that you pointed me to. It's in the Kunena configuration menu under Users>subscriptions>Topic Subscriptions>Email every update

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