Why does the forum lag so much from 9 AM to midnight?

During the day, this forum is so painfully slow it’s not even worth checking, let alone posting anything

but once you hit midnight, the speed finally gets back to normal

😕😕

Same thing happens to me whenever I'm up there...☕🤷

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Larry Walker24 said:During the day, this forum crawls so hard it’s barely worth even looking at, let alone posting anything

but once we hit midnight, the speed finally gets back to normal...

😕😕

Some ISPs out there totally throttle your speeds during "peak hours"... who are you actually using for your internet connection?

I’m with AT&T. Honestly, they can take a hike. Why on earth would they throttle my speeds while still charging me the full premium price? 🙄

Larry Walker24 said:During the day, this site crawls so much it isn't even worth checking, let alone posting.

but after midnight, things finally speed up back to normal.

😕😕

Yeah, right. You're just talking nonsense.☕>

I’m also noticing a massive speed drop on the mobile data... it’s night and day depending on the hour. Like, sometimes around 5 PM, trying to load a single page on this forum is basically impossible...

Everything’s been moving at a snail's pace today. Yesterday was manageable, but today...🙂

Honestly, this forum is driving me crazy. It’s getting impossible to deal with how slow everything has become. 🙂

A mystery question that nobody seems to have an answer for...

And the administration? They just stay dead silent...

God, I swear, this thing is moving at a snail's pace. It’s absolutely agonizing. 🤦

I honestly feel like this entire forum just crawls during the day and even into the evening; I wonder if there is anything that can actually be done to speed things up here
or are we just stuck waiting until after midnight to actually read and post anything meaningful????
🙂

Still just sitting here waiting...

I noticed the exact same thing. Dealing with AT&T... you just lose the will to live. 🙂

If you just want to skim through things quickly, it’s much better to stick to the text version: (just make sure to hit that PDA button on the right so the freshest threads actually stay at the top where they belong).

The sluggishness of this page loading is becoming truly unbearable... and it isn't just an issue on my local network, so I can't exactly blame AT&T. Everything else on the web loads instantly, yet this forum feels like I'm back in the era of dial-up connections...

Gerald White44 said:The lag on this site is absolutely killing me. And it’s not just my connection at home, either, so I don't think it's an issue with my ISP. Every other site loads instantly, but trying to get this forum to open feels like I'm back on dial-up.

Yeah, tell me about it. I can pull up sites packed with a trillion high-res images and videos and they load in a heartbeat, yet this thing just crawls along like a broken-down tractor.🙂

Oh, good, there are more of you... so I wasn't just losing my mind or imagining things 🙂

Man, this is enough to drive anyone insane.🙂The last four or five days have been a total nightmare. The site is crawling—I’m talking waiting over a full minute just for a page to load. It’s pathetic. Sometimes it won't even let me log in, so I just give up entirely. And don't even get me started on trying to actually post something; it takes an absolute eternity just to hit send.😠
It’s not just a temporary glitch for me either, like some people claim it is for a 24-hour window. I’m usually popping on here well after that 24-hour mark and it’s still the exact same mess. Is there any way to actually fix this? I honestly don't even know who to ask or where to go.😕

Oh, forgot to mention—it's only this specific forum that's lagging and glitching out like this. Everything else on my end is working perfectly fine.

My connection has been crawling for a week now

The site is lagging, and to make matters worse, my internet connection keeps dropping out because of this useless Visa homebox 😠. I’m in a real bind here. 🙄