Does this site work for anyone else?

[codecruncher]

Seriously, is this site actually usable for others on a regular basis?

I've tried about every 2 weeks for the last 4 or 5 months and it has been completely unusable. The tons of ads from divedomain.com and googlesyndication.com seem to prevent 80% of my page loads from ever completing.

Before you write me off as a clueless computer dork, realize the entire time I've been able to use a ton of other sites on the net just fine. My DSL provider has been solid over that time also. I've used IE 7, Opera, and Firefox - same story on all of them.

Every time I get my hopes up and then just give up and move on to thedecostop.com and other dive boards and they're fine. I feel a sense of loss - this used to feel like a nice community to me - even met up with some other boarders in Curacao once.

 

[DivingPrincessE]

I'm sure the mods will be along shortly...but since you asked others if the site works for them I'll throw in my .02; this site always works fine for me...I'm on it several hours a day usually without any issues. At times when they are switching servers or something it might slow down or be offline for a day...but there must be something on your end blocking it. Have you tried on another computer? Maybe it's a connection or firewall issue??

Another option if you think it might be the ads...if you become a "supporting member" I'm pretty sure the ads won't be on the site for you anymore.

 

[El Orans]

I use this site quite regularly.

I've changed some settings on your account. Does it help?

 

[Walter]

I've used this site on a practically daily basis (I skip some weekends and vacations) for just shy of 7½ years and have rarely had a problem.

 

[DandyDon]

Huh? A lot of others have posted about how slow it is. I don't get any ads (now that I fixed the Supporting glitch), but it's still slow here.

HowardE did post in another thread today...

The facts are - the number of users who were online before the new servers (last June) was less than 1/2 of what it is now. On average, there are hundreds more people online at any given moment.

We are in the process of adding a second web server to the equation, to handle the traffic to the site. This should speed up page loads for the 97% of our users who are using faster than dial-up connections... even the 40% of our users who are using Cable, or even the 2% of our users who are using an OC3 Connection

Ok fine, progress is still planned, but it is slow - and we are losing the participation of members like codecruncher 'cause like he said: He can talk scuba elsewhere easier.

We've also had some total outages recently, in case you were lucky enough to miss them.