Originally Posted by HIDDY

Slow as a week in the jail.

Originally Posted by PTravel

Something is very, very wrong. It took me 30 minutes to load FT (I hung in there only so I could report the problem here, but I see I'm not the only one).

Originally Posted by lin821

It's been so excruciatingly slow this evening.

Is the system getting the Valentine bug or the new search being worked on? It took 90 minutes for my 3 posts and 1 PM. That's so unacceptable to us FT junkies!

Edited to add:
2/14/08 8:43 pm Central Time

Things seem to be back to normal speed now. At least FT pages are loading as usual.

If the slowness was part of the scheduled system maintenance things, I think we would appreciate IB team (or whoever is responsible) giving us a headsup announcement, like we used to see at the top of the forum pages, so we can "try our best" to cool off from FT for a short while.

It looks like FTers are not getting any headsup in the last two weeks or so for the system "upgrade" (the new beta search turned on around 2/5/08) or "maintenance" (the one just happened in the last two hours). Can we at least be told in advance so we can be "prepared"? @:-)