• Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

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    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

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    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

"Waiting for www.faunaads.com..."

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I've been having this intermittent issue for a few months, and Fauna is the only site I frequent that seems to be giving me this problem. Sometimes, when trying to load or refresh a page, I'll get the green background and the Fauna logo in the upper-left corner of the page; but that's all that loads. When this happens, there's always a small notification on the screen that says "Waiting for www.faunaads.com..." Refreshing doesn't help, nor does closing the browser and reopening it. The only 'fix' that seems to work is clearing out cookies and cache. I currently use Firefox; but IE was no better. It's also happened on both my former desktop as well as my current laptop.

In the several months that I can remember this happening, it was generally for fairly short periods of time - usually just a day, but sometimes up to a week. The frequency with which I need to do my 'fix' is pretty variable, also. Generally, I'd get a couple of hours before I'd need to do it again. Today, it's been about 30 minutes in between fixes. Despite knowing that I'm pure walking bad luck; I think there's gotta be others having the same issue. Anyone?
 
Fangthane said:
Sometimes, when trying to load or refresh a page, I'll get the green background and the Fauna logo in the upper-left corner of the page; but that's all that loads.
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I get that every once in a while but without the 'waiting for faunaads' part and refresh usually will load the page, although sometimes I have to refresh a few times, this is when I use IE.

I wasn't sure if it was something that is due to fauna, the internet connection or where I am accessing the site. I know that doesn't help you but just something similar that I've seen happen so figured I'd mention it.
 
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AbsoluteApril said:
I wasn't sure if it was something that is due to fauna, the internet connection or where I am accessing the site. I know that doesn't help you but just something similar that I've seen happen so figured I'd mention it.
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This is a big part of what's bugging the bejeezus out of me. I consider myself fairly tech-savvy, but I'm drawing a blank. I can refresh to my cold, little heart's content...doesn't help. Were it an issue with my specific internet connection, I'd think it'd effect more than just my ability to connect to this site. Were it an issue with Fauna itself, others would have had to complain about it by now. I just don't get it. :shrug01:

This is my second attempt at replying to you. What happened to the first one? Lost it when the problem decided to present itself right as I clicked "Preview Post". :angry: I'm gonna have to make a conscious effort to remember to copy all my posts before previewing or submitting. When you're as long-winded as I am, it sucks having to type stuff twice. :ack2:
 
About once a day lately I'll get a slow down, and I've never really pinned down what is causing it. I checked the processes running on the server and it seems like loading gets LESS when that happens, not more like you would expect. I've asked the server people to run a scan for intrusions, just in case a hacker might have gotten in and absconding with server processes for his or her own means.

I did increase the caching period on FaunaAds, just in case it might have been a little bit too tight. Might be when traffic is heaviest, there wasn't enough time for the cache to build the images before the next cache build needed to be done, therefore tying up sending the image display to everyone's browsers. It could also be that I have one or more advertisers using ads that are a little larger than I would like. :shrug01:

Heck, could be a network issue at the data center, or any number of things. Maybe an update was done on some obscure part of the server core routines that is hiccuping till the developers figure it out and fix it. There is a crazy amount of stuff that has to be running just right for this all to work.
 
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