I'm finally giving up for today. Most of the time when I click on new forums or threads, I get a blank page.

Has FT been really slow for anyone else?
 

Seems to take a minute or so for each page to load the last couple days.

Yes, they have been having server problems.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=556684

Been absolutely perfect for me in past week at all timesof day and night. However another FT member on east coast USA said he simply could not open the links I was sending him yesterday. Nothing at all.

So seems to be area specific at times?

I'll move this to FlyerTalk's Technical Issues forum for any further discussion with a note that our FlyerTalk admins have posted an announcement of server work today and tomorrow. Ocn Vw 1K, Co-Mod, CommunityBuzz

web1, which was always the fastest for me here in the UK (ever since I discovered the different server names that I could use), has been running very quickly indeed since the tune up overnight.

Many thanks!

It seems that FT is catching the United.bomb bug. The site has been extremely slow/inaccessible for the past two hours or so. Randy must have been thinking that Mr. holtju2 must get some work done rather than browsing on FT. ;)

Edited to add that is there something wrong with the FT's Firefox compatibility? The pages seem to come OK on IE.

Sunday 2:35 am

server is unusually slow and also kicks me out a few times. Are you still having server problems?

It is intermittently slow here. Much faster now than a few hours ago, perhaps since most of the country's asleep. :)

Main site, Web1, and Web2 seem to be down right now - not viewable at all. Web3 is up for now.

thank goodness for web3 ^
i'm having the same problems...

this becomes so slow... hope it will be fixed in the next couple of hours

Hit and miss this evening....sometimes REALLY, REALLY slow, sometimes all right. It has been slow a lot in the last few days, but previous posts seem to explain that.

I just noticed that FT has been awfully slow since it was down for maintenance.

Currently, a disaster. Some pages never loading at all for me.

FT wouldn't even load last night in LAS (airport wireless). Currently v e r y s l o w at MKE (WorldClub).

Been awfully slow since the maintenance.. can we go back to what we had before?

As others have posted, just use web3 and move on.

Dumb question, but what is web3 and how do I use it? Thanks. :)

Put http://web3.flyertalk.com in your browser (ie replace www with web3)

Even slower for me using web3 prefix. :)

Been crawling now for days here.

Hit&Miss
 

hit &miss today, sometimes fast,mostly slow.

I've also had pretty poor performance since the outage a week or so ago.

After reading this thread, I have tried web3 and it does appear to solve the problem, but I've "suffered" for days.

How about posting a general notice on the main page to communicate how to work around the problem until it is fixed?

Very very slow for me, on web3 and otherwise.

Any ideas on what is going on?

Just a WAG but this thread is getting over 1,000 views per hour due to national exposure from CNN and AP News. And yesterday FT set an all time record with 4,400+ members or visitors online at the same time.
Not sure if one thread can slow down FT but the one above is getting some very heavy traffic.

As well as the folks at slashdot, they hit hard. ;) Joshua has made some settings adjustments that should help the speed of the forums. Thanks,

Thanks for all your help trying to deal with the huge load today. It would be a shame if some of the new people coming to Flyertalk left because they kept getting those database errors.

Not only slow...
 

Yesterday and tooday, I experienced soemthing to the effect.."server not available, try again later" message. When finally got connected, the search function tend not to work. Too much traffic? or server down?

Molasses slow.

At least they aren't coming and saying "Where are my cheap fares???" ;)

Looks like Web1 and Web2 are down, Wed evening, about 7:40 PST. Web3 and 4 are up.

Must depend on where you're located.

Web1 And Web2 are super speedy in Southern CA tonight.

At the moment, web1 is down (at least for the UK). I had problems with it yesterday as well.

I'm using web3, with no problems.

Web1 is permanently down, Joshua brought it down yesterday afternoon. The best way to avoid conflicts like this is to use the generic www.flyertalk.com url rather than any particular server such as web3 or web4. Thanks,

Thanks for the information.

However, I think that many of us use the specific servers because doing that produces faster responses than using the generic URL. It would be easier to use the generic URL if we could be assured that that will always be at least as fast as using any specific server, but that's not been my experience.

i'm using web3 right now because my usual (www.flyertalk.com) is s-l-o-w...anyone else having trouble?

Painfully slow - and I've now moved to web3 as karenkay has suggested, where I'm getting good performance.

www was blisteringly fast this morning (London time) - about 6 or so hours ago - and so I was being good, as Tim asked. But it slowed right down a little later.

So now I've moved back to web3, for the same reasons.

I went through all the servers, finally getting to web3 and being able to get in.

We are currently having some trouble with web4 and Joshua is working on it. Thanks,

www not working at all for me - web3 okay