# Is the MB slow this year? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 27, 2013, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558 "2013-01-27T20:50:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/1 "2013-01-27T20:50:56Z")
Seems like at least all year this MB has been kinda slow. Not terribly slow, but chronically slow enough to be irritating. Anyone else notice this, or it just me? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/2 "2013-01-27T21:21:28Z")
Be more specific. I think we’ve discussed this the last week or so about response time. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/3 "2013-01-27T21:36:05Z")
It seems to get hung up a lot. Not for real long times, maybe just 15 - 20 seconds or so, and not all the time, but more than 10% of the time. This has been going on for weeks. I don’t mean to imply something happened on Jan 1, but about that time. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/4 "2013-01-27T21:50:18Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Anyone else notice this, or it just me? Me too. It’s just sporadically hanging for 15-20 seconds as you say. There doesn’t seem to be any particular time or action causing it. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/5 "2013-01-27T22:03:29Z")
Yes, I’ve noticed it on two computers, one an older laptop on wifi, one a newer desktop on wired internet. For a couple of weeks, I’d say. It had been generally good for quite some time before that. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/6 "2013-01-27T22:05:46Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > It seems to get hung up a lot. Not for real long times, maybe just 15 - 20 seconds or so, and not all the time, but more than 10% of the time. > > This has been going on for weeks. I don’t mean to imply something happened on Jan 1, but about that time. Same here. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/7 "2013-01-27T22:16:30Z")
Yes, it has been slow for me. One thing that seem to help sometimes is keeping the main page of the board open and opening the subforums in another tab instead of just clicking on them. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/8 "2013-01-29T20:28:25Z")
I think it’s getting worse. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/9 "2013-01-29T22:33:03Z")
I … have … no … idea … what … you’re … talking … about. … ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/10 "2013-01-29T23:15:48Z")
Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/11 "2013-01-30T02:09:10Z")
Maybe the posters are slow? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/12 "2013-01-30T03:05:01Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > It seems to get hung up a lot. Not for real long times, maybe just 15 - 20 seconds or so, and not all the time, but more than 10% of the time. > > This has been going on for weeks. I don’t mean to imply something happened on Jan 1, but about that time. Same here. Specifically, for the last couple of weeks I’ve noticed it’s slow to authenticate when I want to log in to post (taking your 15-20 seconds, sometimes longer to load from the authentication screen), to sometimes timing out when I click on Post Reply button. I haven’t noticed pages being slow to load, usually, though sometimes when opening a thread it’s lagging a bit…but definitely when I’m authenticating or trying to post a reply to a thread. It’s a fairly recent problem, at least that’s my feeling. ---
**Author:** ![Qwakkeddup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Qwakkeddup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwakkeddup)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/13 "2013-01-30T03:13:06Z")
Personally, I don’t blame the boards, or the hamsters anymore. I would guesstimate that every site I go to does this at least a couple of times a day. No matter the time, the browser, or which computer I may be on. You click the link, and the spinning circle thingy spins but stays greyed out, until it suddenly turns green. Then it sits there, spinning while you eagerly wait for the blank screen before you to bloom in all its glory. (Like waiting for spring!) Sometimes, you can only close the tab or window, and try again. Or close the browser and open another. Usually these things don’t do diddly though. So you click another bookmark, and up pops that site, or maybe not. Seems to be around a 1 in 3 chance of it popping up properly. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/14 "2013-01-30T03:32:03Z")
Yup. It is noticeable. Not anywhere near the agony of the “good old days” several years back when you could read a section of your newspaper before a page would load. But it does seem a bit balkier lately. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/15 "2013-01-31T06:18:26Z")
I’ve noticed it a lot when I hit “preview” on a post - spins long enough that I go browsing google news, which is a new development. As **Tamerlane** says, not as bad as 7 or 8 years ago, but definitely noticeable. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/16 "2013-01-31T08:36:34Z")
Message board is going so slow that I posted this back in 1932 and you all are just now reading it. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/17 "2013-01-31T10:21:08Z")
Traffic is way way way up. Not sure why but it’s not something site owners usually feel bad about. We have been here before, just took us a while to get here again. Guess there is never a thing as too much pipe. I will pass this on upstairs. No promise of anything but I will bring it to their attention. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/18 "2013-01-31T10:35:22Z")
I’ve noticed it here too, but put it down to my 'puter playing funnybuggers, even though it doesn’t happen on other sites etc. But as has been said, not so bad as the bad old days…remember the era of the multiple posts? We’ve come a long way baby! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/19 "2013-01-31T13:51:33Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Traffic is way way way up. Not sure why but it’s not something site owners usually feel bad about. > > We have been here before, just took us a while to get here again. Guess there is never a thing as too much pipe. > > I will pass this on upstairs. No promise of anything but I will bring it to their attention. I appreciate the admission that TPTB are imperfect, and that this is not all in our heads. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558/20 "2013-02-04T20:12:12Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Traffic is way way way up. Not sure why but it’s not something site owners usually feel bad about. > > We have been here before, just took us a while to get here again. Guess there is never a thing as too much pipe. > > I will pass this on upstairs. No promise of anything but I will bring it to their attention. Thanks! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-mb-slow-this-year/648558.md?page=2)