Only a certain amount of images load - Page 1

Sept. 26, 2014, 3:02 p.m. (Last edited by ultrazars on Sept. 26, 2014, 3:03 p.m.)

+1, looks like this (page was done loading when i took the screenshot):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/846888/dispenser/bugs.009.partial.png

Its quite rare my tradeoffer list is loaded properly. Like 1 of 5 times all images are loaded.

Woody Invincible

Sept. 27, 2014, 1:22 a.m.

Same here, it is really frustrating.

sleanzles™

Sept. 27, 2014, 4:41 a.m.

+1 so many odd problem here on dispenser in the past few days.
- Search function is not as accurate as it was.
- Some images not displaying
- Buttons sometimes works sometimes it does not
- Slow page loading
Well I refreshing the page helps it get back on track but just gets frustrating if this keeps on. I'm sure that they are all aware of this problems, let just hope it goes back to normal in the coming days.

Stoic Wolf

Sept. 27, 2014, 5:09 a.m.

Same here. ALL of these problems are affecting me aswell. How in the world did the search function mess up?

Joto

Sept. 27, 2014, 8:16 a.m. (Last edited by Joto on Sept. 27, 2014, 8:26 a.m.)

About the images: We do not serve any images. The images are loaded from Steam. We cannot help it if they cannot be loaded.

About other problems: Cara and I have been trying to reproducing a lot of reported problems but they just never appear here (except the text search problem which is already updated). Thus we know no way to fix either because we never know where to start. One thing for sure is everyone seems to be having their own problems (or none at all). It's pretty much up to everyone's own web browser.

Coookie

Sept. 28, 2014, 11:56 a.m. (Last edited by Coookie on Sept. 28, 2014, 11:58 a.m.)

Images that are used multiple times will display in the first set of images and not at the next, as see from the dropbox image posted above (such as keys in the first wishlist showing up normally and keys in the 5th trade not showing). Reloading the page seems to yield the same result each time, assuming the page didn't change meanwhile. (Also missing the amount # in the corner of the pictures if that matter anything).

VaultDoc

Sept. 28, 2014, 12:02 p.m.

I'm having the same problem with images of games not all loading on both my shop page and in searches (even tho some images for the same items or games have loaded on some other parts of the page). Looking at the browser dev console (I'm using chrome) I see there is always an error: GET http://dispenser.tf/home/resource/dist/jquery-migrate.min.map; 404 (NOT FOUND)
Not sure if that will help pinpoint anything but just thought I'd share.

ultrazars

Sept. 28, 2014, 12:37 p.m. (Last edited by ultrazars on Sept. 28, 2014, 12:52 p.m.)

About the images: We do not serve any images. The images are loaded from Steam. We cannot help it if they cannot be loaded.

This is not really true (meaning you cannot help at all). You can introduce dispenser service that acts like a proxy between dispenser users and steam image service; and perform some kind a pre-caching to ensure we all get our images from your server most of the time.

I dont know why images dont load so often - this could be steam cdn issue; mybe steam cdn have limits against attacks and do not allow load more than, lets say, 150 images per second. I got quite fast internet connection and loading tons of images (eg when using search) fast could look like attack.

This image not-loading issue is very irritating. I really often have to reload my shop main page just to find tradeoffer i want to edit. Same goes for search.

Joto

Sept. 28, 2014, 1:42 p.m. (Last edited by Joto on Sept. 28, 2014, 1:43 p.m.)

About the images: We do not serve any images. The images are loaded from Steam. We cannot help it if they cannot be loaded.

We were still caching and serving the images a few weeks back, and it made the site slow as hell.

ultrazars

Sept. 28, 2014, 3:09 p.m. (Last edited by ultrazars on Sept. 28, 2014, 3:11 p.m.)

well.. it is possible to implement this cache as a
*) separate server process (meainging dispenser app != image cache app, so precious dispenser threads dont serve images )
*) or even put it on different server. I am well aware extra server means extra costs, and i have no idea how much bandwidth this site generates (and therefore no idea how epensive such extra VPS could be).

Just a suggestion. But that image loading issue is bad. One day valve could disallow embedding its images on 3rd party sites (by checking referrer header just like lots of imagehosts does) and your existing solution would be hurt badly.