# Board very slow loading this evening 12-14-20

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-very-slow-loading-this-evening-12-14-20/928068>\
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**Created:** [December 15, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-very-slow-loading-this-evening-12-14-20/928068 "2020-12-15T01:50:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-very-slow-loading-this-evening-12-14-20/928068/1 "2020-12-15T01:50:14Z")

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Is it just me? (I hope.)

By _slow_, I mean 15 mins for pages to load…some not loading at all.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-very-slow-loading-this-evening-12-14-20/928068/2 "2020-12-15T03:06:12Z")

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It’s working ok for me, about an hour after you posted.

I would expect a timeout long before 15 min.

Have you tried the Microsoft fix (aka rebooting your computer)?

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-very-slow-loading-this-evening-12-14-20/928068/3 "2020-12-15T03:30:55Z")

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Thx for the reply. I will tomorrow. When that happens I start having pre-Discourse flashbacks. \<shudder\>

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**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-very-slow-loading-this-evening-12-14-20/928068/4 "2020-12-15T03:45:54Z")

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I had the same issue around 7PM CST. Firefox gave a couple of different errors, each time after quite a long wait. I’m not sure if it was 15 minutes, but it was a very long wait for it to error out. One error was Firefox’s “Network Protocol Violation” error, and I don’t remember the other.

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-very-slow-loading-this-evening-12-14-20/928068/5 "2020-12-15T04:09:48Z")

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That matches my experience. Around that time. Also on Firefox. I didn’t get any error messages or timeouts.