Earlier today I started a ticket via email with IPS support regarding this issue. I wasn't sure posting to the forums was the proper avenue here. Turns out I probably should have instead of posting the ticket. The reason I say that is because I think it might be good to see if any other boards are experiencing this same issue. The issue at hand is as the title says; Tweet embeds causing pages to crash upon load. @Jim M was the IPS Support Staff who so graciously helped me with my ticket. Unfortunately he was unable to reproduce the issue on my board and thought that quite possibly the problem might be on Twitter's end, as they may have issued an update that is causing the matter. What we know - it seems to only affect Apple devices - iPhones and iPads (not sure at this point about it affecting any desktop machines). The browser in question seems to be Safari 15.3. It also seems to be random. In that, it doesn't appear to affect thread pages with the same conditions. These conditions would seem to be just having Twitter embeds located on it. The first I became aware of the issue was a thread with only two posts on it and it was only the second post that contained any Tweet embeds (2). The next report was on a thread that was 48 pages long. The 48th page started to crash after it had about 6 or 7 posts to it and 5 of them contained Tweet embeds. After the thread got to the 49th page, peeps stated that they could load that 49th page, just not the 48th. We have many threads that have tons of Tweet embeds and these Apple device users claim that they load fine. It is quite an odd situation to be sure. Hopefully you are not experiencing this issue, but if you are, if you could post your experience, maybe it would help to solve this issue. I for one would be greatly appreciative to get this resolved. I will update myself as, since I have put this matter to the general forum, it seems more are reporting the same experience. I might add that this has only propped up in the last 5/6 or so. Please be specific to include the device, browser and version experiencing the issue. Thanks!

Twitter Embeds Causing Thread(s) Pages to Crash(?).

July 20, 20222 yr

1 minute ago, My Sharona said:

As stated, it is random. If you visited the site for 2 minutes and did not experience a crash, I'm not surprised. Many of our 'sessions' last for 30 minutes or more.

I edited my post above so you may not have seen my edit. Which was... These sites are on the Cloud, how would one suggest I "analyze" the content?

When you reproduce the crash, you would need to review the page which it crashed on or what you were doing leading up to it. By content, I am talking about images, videos, embeds, etc... included in posts, blocks, etc... This is not a technical issue with the software or Cloud but rather a browser failing to render content which your users/yourself have posted on the page.

July 20, 20222 yr

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1 minute ago, Jim M said:

When you reproduce the crash, you would need to review the page which it crashed on or what you were doing leading up to it. By content, I am talking about images, videos, embeds, etc... included in posts, blocks, etc... This is not a technical issue with the software or Cloud but rather a browser failing to render content which your users/yourself have posted on the page.

I do appreciate the time and efforts here.

Upthread, I posted about my desktop Chrome browser not loading. This was a new PM to me with only text, Google AdSense and a header image on the page. The only thing I can see it possibly being is Ad Sense but again... This has been running on site for over a year and never an issue.

July 20, 20222 yr

2 minutes ago, My Sharona said:

I do appreciate the time and efforts here.

Upthread, I posted about my desktop Chrome browser not loading. This was a new PM to me with only text, Google AdSense and a header image on the page. The only thing I can see it possibly being is Ad Sense but again... This has been running on site for over a year and never an issue.

I would suggest disabling your advertisements then. Keep in mind that on Google AdSense, ads are constantly rotating and do include Javascript based animation. It could well be that your browser/device cannot handle whatever advertisement was being loaded at the time. There are also settings in Google AdSense that can show different types of advertisements on Mobile VS Desktop as well which would further possibly explain what is being discussed.

Unfortunately, this really is beyond our scope of support but I am doing my best to explain what could be happening here.

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July 20, 20222 yr

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1 minute ago, Jim M said:

Unfortunately, this really is beyond our scope of support but I am doing my best to explain what could be happening here.

I know and I do appreciate you taking the time.

July 29, 20222 yr

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@Jim M

You know I've mentioned previously that I'm an idiot right?

I seem to have cleared this up. It was a new form of advertising that I had implemented which was causing the browser overload.

Thanks again for putting up with it and thank you for the excellent support.