Frequently slow and balky. Maybe inadequate servers and ancient software. Then there are the problems with search function....

Unless I'm reading this thread wrong, those who experience a slow response are not members; hence, they would be loading ads? Is this correct?

Not sure. I have the free membership. That's not a member?

Edited to say the site seems faster right now.

There is a "Premium" membership, called Platinum Member you can pay and get access with several privileges. Worth the little cost to do and it supports the site. I did the 2 year deal. No ads to slow things down and access to the Titanium Club sub-forum.

Bill

I might be using the wrong term. Do you see ads? I don't and it loads just fine.

Oh yeah! I see ads. :)

That would be the difference.

About 4 levels of participation, I believe

1. Visitor, can't post, sees ads

2. Member, can post, etc., sees ads

3. Red star member - can post, etc., sees no ads, no longer available - lifetime membership

4. Titanium member, can post, access to titanium sub forum, no ads, paid for periodically

5. **********

Yes and was thinking it had to do with using IE9 but it the same on Firefox and Chrome as well. Oh well..

Ad load times can slow things down. We're not carrying those ads on our servers, though. They are on the advertisers servers, and those affect load time almost as much as our servers do. Adblockers don't really speed it up, the ads still try to load, but aren't displayed is all. We still ping the adservers when you load a page. It's just blocked from displaying on your computer.

We're also bvery graphics heavy, so older browsers have problems, slow connections have problems, and if your new systems aren't kept up to date, there can be problems as well.

Finally, if you are running adblock or script blockers, those programs can slow the load time all on their own by blocking some forum functionality as it cycles through your exceptions list.

I must be the exception here. Loads quickly at work or at home and the only problem I ever have is my aged laptop hanging up on a website page, not BF at all. Thanks Tom and staff.

Bill

You're not the only one, I have no problems either. It doesn't seem any slower than it ever was or any other sites, and I don't have ads blocked, other than flash (which I think still come in but don't autostart). Using SeaMonkey 2.7 on Windows 7, Windows XP SP3, Windows 2000, and OpenSuse 11.3.

Jim

Working fine for me, but I do get an occasional "no load". Nothing horrible.

Which is truly funny....SeaMonkey in any version isn't a supported browser at all for us.

Couldn't get on all weekend at home. First time I tried this morning, again wouldn't load. Finally did.

SeaMonkey is Gecko based and shares code with Firefox so any site that doesn't do some kind of broken browser sniffing and explicitly prevent other browsers from working should work the same with SeaMonkey as Firefox. I like it because it has integrated mail, news, and IRC and is more like the old Netscape suite than running Firefox and Thunderbird separately, and I can run the same browser on all platforms. SeaMonkey 2.7 is based on Firefox 10.0. Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Firefox/10.0 SeaMonkey/2.7

Jim