# This site is slow and that sucks. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 15, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-slow-and-that-sucks/201792 "2003-09-15T20:00:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-slow-and-that-sucks/201792/21 "2003-09-16T14:26:04Z")
**aryk29** , once you are logged in, the speed of the board has nothing to do with your need to log in again. Ya gotta use cookies, dude. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-slow-and-that-sucks/201792/22 "2003-09-16T16:59:46Z")
I would like to suggest that they create a new window when you choose a thread. That way you don’t have to navigate back from the thread contents to the thread list. So all thread lists go in window “A” (whether they were generated by clicking a link, selecting a drop-box value, or created through search). All thread contents go to window “B”. It would take a little while to get used to having two browser windows open at once, but I think it would be MUCH more efficient, both from the client side AND the server side. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-slow-and-that-sucks/201792/23 "2003-09-16T17:43:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ccwaterback \* > I would like to suggest that they create a new window when you choose a thread. This is why God invented the “command-click.” Alternatively, you can press the _right_ mouse button, and select “Open In New Window” from the popup menu. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-slow-and-that-sucks/201792/24 "2003-09-16T17:48:17Z")
“Ask The Guy Who’s Happy With SDMB’s Page Loading Time” ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-slow-and-that-sucks/201792/25 "2003-09-16T17:49:40Z")
**ccwaterback** you might like to use a tabbed browser like Mozilla or Opera. A tab is much like a new window. With Mozilla, for example, you could have the thread list of a forum up, and then middle-button click the threads you want to read. They will then each open in their own new tabs. While those threads are loading, you can go to the next forum in the main tab. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-slow-and-that-sucks/201792/26 "2003-09-16T18:03:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Squink \* > \*\*This is why God invented the “command-click.” Alternatively, you can press the _right_ mouse button, and select “Open In New Window” from the popup menu. \*\* AH HA!!! Nice. I am going to have to start working that way. I think it would be better if that was the default operation though. Saves a ton of reloads from the server by the teeming masses. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-slow-and-that-sucks/201792/27 "2003-09-16T18:17:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Squink \* > \*\*This is why God invented the “command-click.” Alternatively, you can press the _right_ mouse button, and select “Open In New Window” from the popup menu. \*\* I see on problem here. It always creates a new window, it doesn’t over-write the last “B” window you had open. The problem that’s going to arise here is, posting responses to the wrong thread. Oh well, I guess no one can protect us from ourselves. ---
**Author:** ![sperfur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@sperfur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sperfur)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-slow-and-that-sucks/201792/28 "2003-09-16T18:40:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spooje \* > \*\*Tell ya what. > > When I win the lottery (current jackpot: 10 million), I will buy the Reader a new server for the SDMB. \*\* I was thinking this same thing just the other day. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-slow-and-that-sucks/201792/29 "2003-09-17T07:45:45Z")
Okay, okay, I turned cookies on! Now it seems to be working. I used to think all cookies were evil :eek: :smack: 😃 Except my mother’s chocolate chip cookies :drool: ---
**Author:** ![Herge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Herge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Herge)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-slow-and-that-sucks/201792/30 "2003-09-17T08:02:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ccwaterback \* > \*\*AH HA!!! Nice. I am going to have to start working that way. I think it would be better if that was the default operation though. Saves a ton of reloads from the server by the teeming masses. \*\* You can also open your click in a new window by pressing shift as you click. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Owes\_Bess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@Alan\_Owes\_Bess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Owes_Bess)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-slow-and-that-sucks/201792/31 "2003-09-17T11:46:48Z")
**Lynn Bodoni,** > [@](#): > > Each time the server is upgraded, the board gets better for a bit, and then demand catches up to supply. And then, of course, we get even more demand…it’s the tragedy of the commons. Actually, it’s not Hardin’s speculation on the commons. It’s Say’s Law (as in Jean Baptiste Say): > [@](#): > > Roughly stated, Say’s Law claims that total demand in an economy cannot exceed or fall below total supply in that economy or as James Mill was to restate it, “supply creates its own demand.” [Link to boring to some people Economics History thing](http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/say.htm) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-site-is-slow-and-that-sucks/201792.md?page=1)