# Anyone want to bitch about board speed now?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-to-bitch-about-board-speed-now/265746>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 23, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-to-bitch-about-board-speed-now/265746 "2004-09-23T20:41:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-to-bitch-about-board-speed-now/265746/41 "2004-09-25T01:24:27Z")

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Years ago, when I had dial up, I could actually read my snail mail, read the newspaper, etc. while waiting for posts to load. This wasn’t all bad as I was multi-tasking.

Now, I don’t have time to go pee.

This may not be all good. 🙂

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**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-to-bitch-about-board-speed-now/265746/42 "2004-09-25T16:46:56Z")

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> [@MEBuckner](#):
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> Hey, for awhile there it got so fast people were responding to posts before they were even made, but we were getting too many causality violations and Jerry had to drop us back down under lightspeed.
> 
> “Aye, Cecil…she canna take much more o’ this! The server’ll melt if we don’t slow her down!”

```
                                                       Helmsman
                                     She'll fly apart!

                                                     Captain Sulu
                                     Fly her apart then!
```

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**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2004, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-to-bitch-about-board-speed-now/265746/43 "2004-09-26T08:20:10Z")

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_My_ thought process went something like this:

1. There are times when the board runs really slow.
2. This is true for all kinds of websites, especially ones that are popular.
3. It’s been like that since my very first forays onto the Internet, so this isn’t news.
4. All kinds of things can cause slowdown.
5. It can’t be helped.
6. The boardmasters already know, so complaining won’t to do any good.
7. It’ll get fixed in time.
8. There are other websites to visit in the meantime.

Amazing what a little perspective can do, huh?

(P.S.: No, I will not give a shout out to Opal. What the hell has _she_ done to help? 😃 )

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