# It's awfully fast here for a weekday afternoon... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 23, 2001, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-awfully-fast-here-for-a-weekday-afternoon/59214 "2001-03-23T21:01:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2001, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-awfully-fast-here-for-a-weekday-afternoon/59214/1 "2001-03-23T21:01:51Z")
you guys didn’t sneak a new server without telling us, did you? Add a few T3’s? Or poison half the registered users? Damn thing is coming up in a snap…positively freaky for the SDMB… ---
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2001, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-awfully-fast-here-for-a-weekday-afternoon/59214/2 "2001-03-23T21:17:12Z")
I’m not complaining. Although, being able to get on the boards reduces the amount of work I get done. But, it is Friday. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2001, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-awfully-fast-here-for-a-weekday-afternoon/59214/3 "2001-03-24T14:09:09Z")
And there is your answer. Less people in the office on Friday afternoon . . . it’s springtime in a lot of places around the country as well, I would bet that hooky is being played all over. And it’s spring break for a lot of folks too. Or maybe it’s just that the connection gods were smiling on you: everything was so damn slow for me that I finally gave up and went outside. The average time to load a page – ANY page – for me on Friday afternoon was never under two minutes. your humble TubaDiva Administrator who actually found more satisfaction in yardwork. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2001, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-awfully-fast-here-for-a-weekday-afternoon/59214/4 "2001-03-28T16:49:44Z")
Well, I gave up this morning already—it’s taking me about 30 minutes just to post THIS. But I can’t even go outside, unless I tell my editor I’ve just taken up smoking . . . How 'bout we do what they did during the Gas Crisis? Only let people post on even- or odd-numbered days? That way maybe I could commit a drive-by wisecrack in MPSIMS in less than three hours? ---
**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:** [March 28, 2001, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-awfully-fast-here-for-a-weekday-afternoon/59214/5 "2001-03-28T20:01:58Z")
Tell your boss you gotta go out for a fix, see if that helps any. 🙂 Seriously, the board has really sucked lately, it’s taking me a couple hours just to go through my little forum, it ain’t right. I’ve complained and will continue trying to see what we can do, if anything, to make it a better experience for everyone and not just Stoid. (No reflection on Stoid.) your humble TubaDiva Administrator