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Inventories (yes another inventory problem post but please take a look first)
first off i shall post Sneeza's comment here from the last post about the site and its inventory problems
Even though i myself have been handleing the situation rather well i thought id maybe post this even if its useless

Sneeza: "If I increase the timeout any higher than it currently is, then all of the processes handling requests will start to fill up and cause a backlog. You see, when the process is waiting for data, it's still occupied and can't be used for another request. When all the processes are used, the backlog starts to fill up, which is what happens when you see a website respond really, really slowly to your requests. I'd rather have 90% of the website functioning with 50% of the backpack requests timing out than the website be totally unavailable/ridiculously slow."

Now allthough this is greatly understandable and is very smart to keep the site running fast and have about half of peoples trades not working, but i cannot digress how stressful it is to hundreds of people that use the site for tradeing or doing series such as "scrap to unusual" and what not, and i think id make across just how bad it is for some people.

I am one of those people included and allthough it sounds like im just having a rant, i am somewhat trying to talk on behalf of a lot of people, for a start its been nearly an entire month for quite a few people (allthough its only been about half of one for me) or maybe many more then a few and it does trouble them as they may somewhat use the site entirely for tradeing and just play for fun.

for example since some dont want to spend time having to run about on servers to find buyers and sometimes just want to play the game it somewhat makes the game less fun as they soon realise it is much harder to trade with others in game as most servers nowadays are mostly only selling and buying australiums, unusuals and killstreaks ext. ext.
But not only that if a kid joins a server (and ive seen this happen before) they most likely will use a mic to advertise their trade and of course since most kids nowadays sound like michael jackson doing the "hee hee" sound effect, kids may end up being verbally abuse even if it is only over the internet. Or anyone for that matter.

But then of course there is the small patiance span of others and so they cant take the time to look for buyers very long, (and to be clear im no one of those people incase your judgeing me right now.)
After that, now although this next part may sound stupid, it is supriseingly common, since users of tf2 outpost cant use it they go into trade servers and such but since they may or may not be experianced with people offering items its been alot more common to be scammed of items even if this isnt tf2outposts direct fault i do personally somewhat blame the site.

For now ill leave it at this as it has become a rather large discussion allready, but i want to make clear that
1. yes my grammar is absoulutly appauling and
2. im not posting this to try and make the owners of the site change the site to make it run slow and have everyone be able to use the trades and such this is purely so you can see a few of the dialemas of people who cant use the site.
3. and then finally im probably gonna get alot of hate for posting this but im just trying to put it out there.
Last edited by AdrianPernicious; 16 Feb, 2015 @ 8:51am
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I handle the support tickets and I rarely get tickets about inventories other than CS:GO loading. CS:GO inventories not loading is primarily due to excessive downtime of the CS:GO API which is entirely handled by Valve and beyond our control.

Or are you not talking about loading inventories but something else and I'm just misunderstanding?
AdrianPernicious 16 Feb, 2015 @ 9:00am 
Im takling about anything loading in general, whenever i got to click "New" or "Search" no inventories load at all for any of the games, it stays constantly loading showing no sign of letting up as the buffering picture keeps going on and on even if its not from my backpack, a few of my friends have exprianced this too.
Neither does it load my steam inventory either
Im sorry if there is a solution to this and i have been ignorant to see it though
Last edited by AdrianPernicious; 16 Feb, 2015 @ 9:03am
You may have a browser extension blocking some of the site's functionality, or it may just be a problem in the Valve APIs, and that is beyond our control.
AdrianPernicious 16 Feb, 2015 @ 10:45am 
Would AdBlock be a problem? extension wise?
AdBlock is not generally an issue but it depends on your settings. If you have no scripts turned on or have it blocking everything, then yes it can be a problem. It can also be due to a slow internet speed that is causing everything to timeout. Have you tried running a speedtest at Speedtest.net ?
AdrianPernicious 17 Feb, 2015 @ 4:43am 
I have tried running speedtest my internet is fine and my settings with addblock havent been an issue however strangely its started working again for me so i suppose there isnt much need for this disscussion anymore unless anyone else of the public is haveing trouble
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Date Posted: 16 Feb, 2015 @ 8:47am
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