Rest assured - Keith has not lost interest. He is still super active behind the scenes.

Re: Pusher.com issue - it is not that we are ignoring it, or that it isn't critical, but it is hard to fix something that we cannot reproduce or test. I do notice that the wheel spins for quite a bit on Firefox, but that is not an issue for me on Chrome or Safari. The content is there, but the wheel just continues for a few more seconds. Is anyone having issues where the content is not loading?

: I just completed 10 Wizard quests in under 5 minutes on Firefox. I did not see an issue or lag on any of them. :/ Will reset my count and try again but it is difficult to replicate.

: Interesting point. I just loaded a few shops with a lot of items stocked and the wheel is spinning for a bit... Going to see if there is a request that is being pulled for every item... that might have something to do with it.

Re: 504 issues - I have not seen one. How often are they happening? Any overzealous firewalls or programs running?

: Yeah, I just saw the page that I had loaded when I looking before on Firefox still had the spinning wheel.

I am searching through a bunch of sites to see if any other programmers/sites have issues with it and it seems to be pretty common across Firefox. One recommendation is to hit the ESC key and Firefox will stop loading the page. Might be worthwhile to hit that if you come across a large shop/page with a lot of images (until we can come up with a better solution).

: Likely/potentially.

: If you are receiving the message when autopricing, it could be that there are too many items. We continue to try to optimize the script as much as we can, but the sheer volume can bog it down.

: Ok - cool. Let me look into that. It seems like an isolated/consistent issue so it might be something on the script.

We are looking for alternatives to pusher.js, but until we find something that'll work for the load on Subeta (without going back to our own solution which frequently broke) I've added an option to disable pusher.js on the preferences page. If you disable it, it'll disable live events and the shoutbox, but will make the page hanging not happen at all.

And just a note - we've been looking for alternatives for a long time. The technology is unfortunately mostly focused to sites like facebook (and any newer site) that doesn't reload as you move around the site, but loads the pages via javascript. Subeta reloads on every page, which isn't really built for these kinds of services.

PUSHER IS DEAD