Would love to chat more: site too slow.

Just a quick post (well anything but "quick") to check whether anyone else has found the forums exceptionally slow and unreliable for the past week or two. I've tried all of the obvious things at my end to see if I can sort things out...

  • Tried both Chrome and Firefox on both Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linux.
  • Cleared histories, caches, and cookies.
  • Reset my router (which shows no activity while site access is stalled).
  • Not a wireless problem, as I'm hard-wired to my router.
  • Full scan with two different anti-malware packages (nothing found).
  • No custom browser add-ons.

Access to some other sites has intermittently been a little slower than usual from time to time, but no other site that I use has been anything like as bad as this one. Sometimes cancelling a page load and starting again will make a page come up a little quicker, but even then, pages are loading in little chunks at a time with long waits in between - worse than the old dial-up days, so I don't think I'm being impatient. Very occasionally, I get the orange "lost connection" boxes, but not very often; so I don't think that's the problem.

In the mean time; if I don't seem very chatty or I'm slow to reply, it's most likely because I've got fed up of twiddling my thumbs while I stare at a blank screen or those pulsating blobs!

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