641701 Mon Aug 03 13:21:36 -0700 2009 31 30 Site Talk 0 4913971 The board is really slow. My downloading speed seems fine with other sites. Mon Aug 03 13:21:36 -0700 2009 1098706 Emilyishere 1 4913990 Pretty sure it's this site. I'm giving up for now. Mon Aug 03 13:27:33 -0700 2009 4913971 11231 Glencora 1 4914081 it's the site. since yesterday, trouble posting & loading pages, connections keep timing out. i figured it was temporary, and related to whatever engineering was doing to the site to modify the Places & new Restaurant functions...but it's gotten progressively worse over the past 8 or so hours. Mon Aug 03 13:48:36 -0700 2009 4913971 103920 goodhealthgourmet 2 4914093 I thought it was just me...boy is it frustrating! Mon Aug 03 13:52:47 -0700 2009 4914081 174753 NellyNel 1 4915079 It's been intermittently slow for me today. Mon Aug 03 20:10:25 -0700 2009 4913971 10027 Chris VR 1 4916641 fyi. What's up??? I am to access other sites easily, chowhound is either so slow I give up, or I can't connect at all.... Tue Aug 04 11:39:49 -0700 2009 4913971 50431 chef chicklet 1 4916746 At this moment in time it's connecting so fast that there is no lag time at all. Tue Aug 04 12:06:04 -0700 2009 4913971 108169 Servorg 2 4916888 The frustrating thing is the connection problem ebbs and flows for no apparent reason (although I get this feeling that the Engineering Tech's are back there behind the curtain somehow causing this to happen as they fiddle with the site while hounds burn). Tue Aug 04 12:38:48 -0700 2009 4916746 108169 Servorg 1 4916849 I also have been having problems, especially with the timing out connection error. And it hasn't sped up for me . . . yet! Tue Aug 04 12:29:15 -0700 2009 4913971 80937 danhole 1 4916973 Sssssssssssssslooooooow. ???? WWWWWWWWWwwwhhhhhhhhhhhaaat slooooooooooooooow? Seeeeeeeeeeeemssss norrrrrrrmaaaal to meeeee. Tue Aug 04 13:04:38 -0700 2009 4913971 262680 margshep 1 4942558 Ten days later and it is still slow. The lag is incredible often times my replies and post time out and I get the chow error page. Any word on when this lag will end? Thu Aug 13 06:15:46 -0700 2009 4913971 235812 Sandwich_Sister 2 4942571 Are you on a PC or a Mac? If you're on a PC when was the last time you cleaned out your browser cache? Thu Aug 13 06:19:26 -0700 2009 4942558 108169 Servorg 3 4943415 No. I've cleaned cache it is not that. Since they are setting up testing for Places I am chalking up the slowness, tons of error pages to that and hoping it is temporary. Thu Aug 13 10:08:42 -0700 2009 4942571 10264 rworange 4 4943464 I wonder if Sandwich_Sister has done so? Have you tried CCleaner? I find it really helps to run this and, best of all, it's free. Also at times after running CCleaner (or just clearing your browser cache the old fashioned way) it can help to shut down and restart. http://www.ccleaner.com/ Thu Aug 13 10:16:05 -0700 2009 4943415 108169 Servorg 5 4943596 The site is slow. period. It has been recently ... at least since the beginning of August when this was first reported. I hope Sandwich_Sister and others give everything a try, but it is slow ... and getting lots and lots and lots of error messages. There are times when opening every other post results in an error message. This happens more in the evening hours ... but then again I read the site more in the evening. That being said, it is not soul-sucking slow like it was sometimes in the past ... just slower than usual and it is not consistant. There are periods of time that are better than others. Thu Aug 13 10:45:26 -0700 2009 4943464 10264 rworange 6 4944022 That sounds awful... I haven't encountered any of these problems. I hope that whatever the issue is gets resolved, but I have seen very few error messages on my end recently. Thu Aug 13 12:43:20 -0700 2009 4943596 10027 Chris VR 7 4944066 Ironically, I got the Chow application error attempting to open this message ... and two previous topics in a row. It comes and goes though. Thu Aug 13 12:52:17 -0700 2009 4944022 10264 rworange 8 4944081 Very weird. The site is loading within a couple of seconds for me, and I'm not getting any error messages to speak of. That's one of the reasons I asked about cleaning up your system to see if that helped. Maybe something to do with your ISP provider? ADD: Just as a test I clicked on the "The US and the UK: Divided by a Common (Culinary) Language" thread, which is 489 posts or so ( http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/615004 ) and it completely loaded in 35 seconds. Threads of 40 or 50 posts are literally loading in 2 seconds. Thu Aug 13 12:55:00 -0700 2009 4944066 108169 Servorg 9 4944187 Well, aren't you a lucky duck? The US & UK thread took more than a minute, maybe even two, to load for me. I am on a Mac and deleted all my past history (I use firefox), and emptied my cache. I have shut down the browser, shut down the computer, rebooted, restarted, and it is still very slow. The only website I find slower is the Food Network. I know it isn't my ISP provider. And I also keep getting the Chow application error. Ever since they made some changes - can't remember which ones they were there have been so many - I have had trouble. It gets frustrating. Thu Aug 13 13:23:16 -0700 2009 4944081 80937 danhole 10 4944245 Mac and Firefox here too. I'm not experiencing anything even close to what you are. What a drag! Thu Aug 13 13:39:40 -0700 2009 4944187 10087 Pat Hammond 11 4944331 Hmmm ... judging by the people not having problems, perhaps you folks have some different permissions. Yeah, not ISP related as this is the only site where this happens. Like danhole mentioned, it is loading time. This doesn't bother me too much because the way I use this site is to open a window and come back to it. It is not like when there was a 10 minute lag. One thing that changed for the positive is that there is no longer a lag when editing a reply. Before you could reply and edit once. Then the choice was to either wait for a while to edit again or cut and paste to work around the lag. Again, I'm not too hot and bothered about it as I figure things will change when the new places changes go through. Still, the problem has been there for a few weeks now. Thu Aug 13 14:00:48 -0700 2009 4944245 10264 rworange 12 4944537 rworange, Are you on a Mac? I'm going to run the repair permissions program to see if that helps. And it has been a few weeks. Thu Aug 13 15:03:55 -0700 2009 4944331 80937 danhole 13 4944763 No. PC Thu Aug 13 16:27:16 -0700 2009 4944537 10264 rworange 10 5061236 A month later, it's still slow, though not terminally so. And foodnetwork is by far the slowest site in the english language world, which is so annoying that I have nearly stopped using it. Sun Sep 27 00:59:47 -0700 2009 4944187 26510 gadflier 6 4946207 heheh yes, I have cleared cashe and tried everything. It's also the fact that it is Only this site. and continues to be only this site. I think this is a server issue and not a user issue. Fri Aug 14 08:22:51 -0700 2009 4943596 235812 Sandwich_Sister 7 4946560 Problem is, it's not affecting all users- I'm not having the problems you describe. I'd guess it's browser/OS related, not server related. That doesn't make it suck any less, of course! Fri Aug 14 10:15:51 -0700 2009 4946207 10027 Chris VR 8 4946661 Getting Chow error after Chow error has nothing to do with the browser or operating system. I was suspecting browser originally since Chow testing seems alergic to IE. However, other browsers are having problems. I don't know why some of us are blessed with this but it has nothing to do with anyone's computer. I am waiting patiently to see what happens after the revised places is installed. Fri Aug 14 10:47:30 -0700 2009 4946560 10264 rworange 9 4946677 If some users are encountering problem after problem, and some others aren't, then the problem isn't purely server-side. More likely it's like the bulk of the other problems on this site, where some piece of code doesn't play nice with some browser/OS. Fri Aug 14 10:51:15 -0700 2009 4946661 10027 Chris VR 9 4964688 Got 5 application error pages in last 20 mins. Fri Aug 21 01:42:46 -0700 2009 4946661 10039 Melanie Wong 1 5061507 ditto, slow and sometimes get "page unavailable message" Seems like a problem for around 2 weeks now. Sun Sep 27 07:53:20 -0700 2009 4913971 50431 chef chicklet 1 5070750 I'm posting a few days later than the last poster and I, too, have been experiencing difficulty with this site for several days. Most of today was very frustrating. It is only now that the site seems to be working better. Wed Sep 30 17:04:36 -0700 2009 4913971 14014 liu 1 5075130 Slow page loading and a few error messages over the last few days. Firefox via Windows XP on a cable connection usually @12 Mbps. Fri Oct 02 13:22:38 -0700 2009 4913971 11405 Midlife