hypercrites

why does this site take so long to open a new page. i almost lose interest every time. it is frustrating. i lose train of thought waiting. at least 2 mins. every time i move. sucks. and it doesn't always open up on the page i logged in at-it throws me out to the home page and i have to start all over again waiting for pages to open. it also takes forever to have my posts posted. sucks sucks sucks. i may lose interest altogether at this rate soon. there isn't enough time in a day for this.

This is one of the joys of putting a board up on a free host. Among other folk running boards, it's also a problem with budget hosts even when you do pay for hosting.  When SMFNew first established itself, it was bragging about how quickly stuff loaded but since it has attracted more paying forums on it, the ones that don't pay have taken the hindmost here.

We could move the board again, I suppose, but for-free anywhere else just won't improve performance, I'm afraid.  While premium price was paid to GoDaddy for a budget account (ha! some budget!) similar problems were encountered although it did load faster than this place.

As long as this site is free-hosted, I have no say over the servers whatsoever, nor do I have control over the database. I have recently done an optimization via this Admin panel and I can do one again, and do that frequently, but I doubt that'll improve performance much.  I know it's a pain, but we're getting what we paid for, basically.

However, I do have a portal widget that does slow down the loading of the portal, and that's IM Translator. I put that in because of the Russians that have registered here. gri has a fairly good command of English, but the other Russian still hadn't posted even with the translator in place, and so I just deleted that account.  I'll go ahead and delete the IM Translator for now, but if any of gri's friends come over, I'd like to put it back in.  I would suggest that you save a link directly to the forum to bypass the portal when I do that, though, for your convenience.

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