Just wondering if it's me, my computer, or the forums causing those really long threads to not load.

They load fine on my end.

There are certain threads that never work for me.

examples?

I get it randomly. A thread will partially load, say 3/4 of a page, and then the page will hang. I hit refresh or eventually just leave the thread. Next time it happens, I'll post the thread & time it happened in here.

I can never get the last page of "How was the commute today?" in the Commuting forum.

examples?
In my case for example.

In Foo: - the hawt women of Foo
- Watch'ya doin'
- the hawt men of Foo

For me it is basically any thread with more than about 2,000 posts. I just thought it was my computer.
BTW I'm using an Intel Duo-Core iMac and running Firefox or occasionly Safari.

Edit: If I click on a very large thread, I don't get anything but a white screen and no posts at all show up.

hmmmm...I will pass this uphill, it sounds like a timeout issue to me.

What connection speed are you connecting at?

What connection speed are you connecting at?

This is with high-speed ethernet connections for me.

Same threads give me trouble. High speed cable modem.

hmmmm...I will pass this uphill, it sounds like a timeout issue to me.

What connection speed are you connecting at?

I'm on the verizon fios 15 meg (8 meg reality) service.

hmmmm...I will pass this uphill, it sounds like a timeout issue to me.

What connection speed are you connecting at?

Currently 4 Mbps cable modem, Previously a 2 Mbps wireless modem and at work i think it is just an ASDL modem. I haven't been able to view the pages at home or at work where I use a windows laptop.

It happened to me when the thread display mode is hybrid. When the mode is linear it works fine.

hmmmm...I will pass this uphill, it sounds like a timeout issue to me.This came up initially a few months ago, but I thought it had been fixed.

As I recall, it went something like this:

In counting the number of posts that a thread has in order to determine the number of pages to display, the forum software is counting the soft-deleted posts. Regular users can't see soft-deleted posts, so the number of pages is incorrect, moreso the longer a thread is.

Everyone is seeing all the posts, it just looks like there's more. It started happening after the forum software was upgraded once, I think.