I fell, I need to make an addition to my previous post.
As far as I know, ebay has distributed the functions of their homepage on to different servers, at different locations.
This means the "core" of the homepage is generated on one server. From a kind of advanced spreadsheet.
Then the graphics are added, coming from another server, advertising and other subpart of what we all know and see as the "ebay homepage" from yet another server.
I believe what happens here, is that the "core" server is generating the homepage, and we see it as text.
Simply because the servers that should be providing the graphics and the page layout, etc, etc, are not returning their part before the page is showing.
So, either the calls from the "core" to the other servers does not work properly, or the response from the other servers are delayed too much to appear in time for us users to see them.
So, as a result, we get the "raw" rext version.
If you look closely through all the weird stuff on your screen, you will most likely find all the functions you usually see on the "normal" homepage. Only in bungled and/or misplaced positions.
On my screen, some of the usually small buttons shows a filling half the screen, other fields are very tiny.
Point is, they seem all to be present, and for an emergency, one can try and push them.
Too bothersome for daily use, but for single operations, it could work.
Still, ebay needs to FIX this.
One way to optimize a homepage is to squeeze your servers down to the lowest feasible response time.
( You pay more for faster speed)
Slack costs money, so it makes sense not to have slack. But it leaves no room for external factors on the internet that might delay one server.
So, it may be ebay that have "optimized" to the point, where their homepage no longer work properly.
A good homepage would not load before it has secured all components, so, again, it´s on ebay to FIX this.
