# Do you avoid SDMB when it's slow? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 12, 2002, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-avoid-sdmb-when-its-slow/118698 "2002-07-12T21:43:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![QueenAl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/d26b3c/32.png) [@QueenAl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QueenAl)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-avoid-sdmb-when-its-slow/118698/21 "2002-07-13T18:41:57Z")
The slowness doesn’t bother me, it’s the frequent ‘website not responding.’ If I could find a woman who would go - [fill in the rest of the joke yourself ;)] ---
**Author:** ![flapcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@flapcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flapcats)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-avoid-sdmb-when-its-slow/118698/22 "2002-07-13T19:07:33Z")
QueenAI, I don’t get it. Fill me in! I wait, and wait. But I am often rendering and moving big files around so I’m used to it. The SDMB costs money, and I suppose it would cost lots to speed it up. ---
**Author:** ![Leifsmama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a698b9/32.png) [@Leifsmama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leifsmama)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-avoid-sdmb-when-its-slow/118698/23 "2002-07-14T00:10:13Z")
I play games while I wait. Occasionally, when it won’t let me post for the umpteenth time (I’ve had this happen at 2 am) I quit. ---
**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-avoid-sdmb-when-its-slow/118698/24 "2002-07-14T01:46:09Z")
When the problem was simply the slowness, I waited but for about the past month or so, there have been a lot of times when I couldn’t get past the home page and I gave up. Or, I’d get to the boards, but not be able to get to a particular thread that looked interesting. I’ve gone for a week without even trying because it was so frustrating to find a thread and not be able to read it or post to it. I finally got to one thread and posted a question, but couldn’t get back into it for days to read the responses. Tonight I had no trouble getting to the boards, the various forums, or threads. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-avoid-sdmb-when-its-slow/118698/25 "2002-07-14T02:06:49Z")
When SDMB is slow I take it out on my computer. I’ve gone though a lot of computers this month. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-avoid-sdmb-when-its-slow/118698/26 "2002-07-14T07:50:54Z")
I just go do something else while I wait for it to load. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-avoid-sdmb-when-its-slow/118698/27 "2002-07-14T07:53:09Z")
I sit here like a big dumb sheep. I have nothing else to do, and I don’t see any problem with it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-avoid-sdmb-when-its-slow/118698.md?page=1)