Molasses
 

Ever since the "dancing marriott rewards" ads started appearing -- floating out across to cover half the screen on every page loaded! -- Flyertalk has become slow as molasses. Argggggh

http://web2.flyertalk.com/ seems to be usable, but the graphics are very slow.

Good point! It seems to be working fine, while some images and .js files on www.flyertalk.com are taking over 5.5 minutes to load.

"New Posts" hasn't worked all day for me. Every other link requires double or triple clicking.

Yes, it is web1 which seems to be the slow one ATM.

I am crawling on FT this morning. :(

I was too until I switched over to http://web2.flyertalk.com link that was posted. That one works fine.

Thanks for the URL - it's working well for me now.

Sometimes it's quick and sometime it really hangs lately.

Hopefully the FT tech staff will let us know what is or was wrong.

working much better today than yesterday

yeah, but you're in New Zealand so your yesterday is our today

Back to normal for me now ;)

Rob's yesterday is also yesterday for many of us. :cool:

Working a lot faster for me now too. ^

I just bought Flyertalk Premium. FT is sooooooooooooooooooooooooo much faster loading now.

So how much faster does this option speed things up, techies?

To tell you the truth I don't know how much faster Premium is. You definitely avoid waiting on data from the ad servers which probably bumps the speed at least a little.

We're glad that you're happy with it. :)

So slow!
 

Anyone else having a problem today?

I am having same problem. Thanks for posting. I was wondering if the problem was at my end.

Yes very slow for me too.

ditto here.

It has improved now.

still slow here.

It was dead slow for me - and has suddenly picked up speed. ^^

Hi,

Very slow a few hours ago - now seems to be close to normal speed.

Regards

TBS

Sorry, I think it might have been someone using our PM system to spam campaign stuff. I sensed it was slow as well but now seems to be quite speedy. Kind of like the legislators in the States have free franking privileges and they think they can send out their Christmas card list for free at taxpayers expense. Full speed ahead.

Seems fine to me. Thanks, Randy!

FewMiles..

Yup. Fast again here too.

Back to normal, thanks everyone.

Very slow today. What's up?

Still much slower than usual, even on FT Premium.

And now.....running fine.

Running slow today, the first time in months I've noticed.

I think all that TalkBoard voting is slowing things down today. ;)
Switch over to http://web2.flyertalk.com. That ones running fine.

thanks cholula, one of these days I must bookmark that one as well ;)

it's been horrible this afternoon :(

you used my words ;)

No speed issues for me here in IAD, but after about 5-10 mins it looses DNS and IP connectivity. Have to close the browser, wait a minute or two, then re-launch where it works fine for 5-10 mins then crashes again.

Will try the web2 address and see if that helps.

Same here.

The other address works ok though.

Thanks Cholula, it works great from that address.

Looks like the web2 address is the only one working right now, but I imagine all the traffic is now on that server so performance is suffering (but the site is working).

Again, same experience here.

But I assume (maybe the tech staff can confirm) that when a server goes down they get a page so they can fix it.

Hopefully that will be soon.

It was so very slow for a while. Now it seems to have sped up. Hope the return in speed is not just temporary.