# Straight Dope - WAY TOO SLOW!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 11, 2000, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209 "2000-07-11T13:43:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Piig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@Piig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Piig)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/1 "2000-07-11T13:43:12Z")
since that that thing they did to the site the other week, it now takes ages and ages…well about 30-40 seconds to load up pages and threads! No, do not blame my ISP (I connect through a LAN), no other page takes this long and SD never used to, but i am getting a bit fed up with sitting here like a moron waiting and waiting for each page to load!!! not gonna do it for much longer!! ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/2 "2000-07-11T13:54:46Z")
Go to ATMB . Stop using bandwith with questions in the wrong forum. ---
**Author:** ![Piig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@Piig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Piig)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/3 "2000-07-11T14:07:49Z")
yojimbo, mate, buddy, old pal… give my original post another look, and PLEASE tell me at which point I ask a question. And do not bother telling me where to go again whether you read correctly the first time or not. In fact you can from now on, “stop wasting bandwith” talking to me. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/4 "2000-07-11T14:42:09Z")
I apologise piig . I made the assumption that a post in a forum called **General Questions** was a question . Instead now I see that it was just a statement \*\* About This Message Board\*\* . I’ll try to read your posts more carefully in future :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Piig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@Piig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Piig)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/5 "2000-07-11T15:29:24Z")
I think you are gonna be a very busy mullet from now on Jimmy. It is going to take you ages replying to everybody that makes more of a statement than a question on this board. Theres no way you can convince me that the only posts allowed in this great forum MUST be concluded with a question mark!! ooops sorry…can you?? Stop being pedantic man. ---
**Author:** ![lunapark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/278dde/32.png) [@lunapark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lunapark)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/6 "2000-07-11T15:34:45Z")
lol lol ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/7 "2000-07-11T15:42:56Z")
**Yojimbo:** Allow me to phrase Piig’s response in the form of a question: _ **WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS WEBSITE?** _ Ever since the update last week, everything loads with glacial slowness. Half the time (for me at least), the threads never finish loading, ever after waiting a minute or more. And I have an ethernet connection; I shudder to think what people with modems are going through :eek: ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/8 "2000-07-11T15:46:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Piig \* > Theres no way you can convince me that the only posts allowed in this great forum MUST be concluded with a question mark!! I mightn’t but I think I know a man that can 😉 > [@](#): > > Stop being pedantic man. Your quite right , I’m being a tad of an asshole. ( hot in the office ) I don’t want to fall out with somebody who uses mullets as a insult . By the by : Yojimbo is a film I like . Peter is the name not Jimmy . 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/9 "2000-07-11T15:53:46Z")
**Diceman** I’m not being a smartarse but the answer ( well at least people talking about it )is over at ATMB . TubaDiva , Jerry Davis and Ed Zotti have all addressed it over several threads . I would give you links but the board’s to slow to do that kind off craic. ---
**Author:** ![tamster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@tamster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tamster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/10 "2000-07-11T16:01:48Z")
This whole thing started the day I registered. Sorry, it’s all my fault. Whatever the forum, I’m glad to get that off my chest. ---
**Author:** ![tamster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@tamster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tamster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/11 "2000-07-11T16:13:57Z")
This whole thing started the day I registered. Sorry, it’s all my fault. Whatever the forum, I’m glad to get that off my chest. ---
**Author:** ![Piig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@Piig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Piig)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/12 "2000-07-11T16:19:58Z")
diceman: that was indeed highly amusing!! I must try to improve the way what i speak like! i did laugh heartily, that was much more like what i was trying to say! Yojimbo: i’m sure Manhattan will move this thread over to ATMB, especially if you take the time to specifically contact him to grass me up for being a nasty person that posts messages in the wrong forum! Perhaps someone could recommend a lawyer for me as i am sure the penalty for such wrongdoing is most distasteful. On the other hand you have provided me with great entertainment this afternoon, so i hope you havent taken offence to what i have said, at the end of the day i guess you are probably right, its just i have always preferred the people in this forum, and frankly even if this is the wrong forum, it would only be yet another message of mine that gets moved somewhere else, so i really dont care. cool!! i just won a hamper full of food and wine in our office raffle!! ---
**Author:** ![lunapark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/278dde/32.png) [@lunapark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lunapark)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/13 "2000-07-11T16:21:58Z")
## And now your double posting to waste even more of our time, geez what a jerk. wink ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/14 "2000-07-11T17:16:29Z")
30-40 seconds??? You’re lucky. I clicked on the link to this thread at exactly 1:01 Eastern Time and it finished loading around 1:06. I think they should un-upgrade the software. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/15 "2000-07-11T17:20:18Z")
OK, I read one of the problem treads in ATMB. Sorry about the patronizing comment, Yojimbo. I’ve been getting a little cranky because I’ve missing out on a lot of good threads this past week. One day, the SDMB is coming in fine, then suddenly I’m back in the old BBS days, when 14K connection speeds were blindingly fast 😛 ---
**Author:** ![tamster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@tamster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tamster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/16 "2000-07-11T18:25:50Z")
I was posting from someone else’s machine. I had to leave and in the time that it took to except my first and only request, the machine’s owner came along and resent my reply again. I know it sounds like a likely story, but it’s true. I swear it. Vindication please. The Tamster is no jerk! ---
**Author:** ![tamster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@tamster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tamster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/17 "2000-07-11T18:36:44Z")
I was posting from someone else’s machine. I had to leave and in the time that it took to except my first and only request, the machine’s owner came along and resent my reply. I know it sounds like a likely story, but it’s true! I swear it. Vindication please. The Tamster is no jerk! ---
**Author:** ![lunapark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/278dde/32.png) [@lunapark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lunapark)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/18 "2000-07-11T18:48:03Z")
tamster: Likely story double poster. * * * like you weren’t asking for it. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/19 "2000-07-11T19:07:08Z")
An answer can be found in this thread: “[Board slowdown](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=29854)”. **Piig** , people are indeed correct in stating that your original post was in the wrong forum†. Questions about the message board software go in the forum “About This Message Board”, and complaints go in “The BBQ Pit.” If this is not a complaint so much as a general observation, it would go in MPSIMS. etc… Please read again the descriptions of each forum on the [home page](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php), in particular [About This Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=2) For technical questions and concerns about the SDMB. This is also the place for practice posts. [MPSIMS](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=4) Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share. For general chatter, great thoughts, etc. [The BBQ Pit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=5) If you gotta flame, do it here. This is the place for all complaints and other discussion regarding administration of the SDMB * * * †In my opinion. Please note that I am not the moderator of this forum. **manhattan** makes the final decision on what threads are appropriate for GQ. (edited to add footnote) [Edited by Arnold Winkelried on 07-11-2000 at 02:19 PM] ---
**Author:** ![tamster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@tamster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tamster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209/20 "2000-07-11T19:48:36Z")
lunapark, I’m no trouble maker. Honest. I’m a victim of the system, incredibly SLOW system the Dope is running here. I hate it that I have embarassed myself and inconvienenced everyone involved. But you know, it’s all Piig’s fault for posting a complaint here anyway. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-way-too-slow/25209.md?page=2)