Why is Talk of TV so slow to load?

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Old 12-08-2014, 08:49 AM
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For the past week the Talk of TV threads have been very slow to load. Is this a problem with my computer?
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Old 12-08-2014, 08:57 AM
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You are right. Seems like just over the past week or so the site is really slow and is a huge memory hog. I used to have the default blue screen instead of the green but it looks like that is no longer available. I have plenty of memory but when I am on this site, it drops into the red zone.
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Old 12-08-2014, 09:04 AM
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I am not experiencing slow loading.
But when I click on a thead, all of the posts do not appear. The screen just locks after a few posts. Going out and reselecting the thread sometimes eliminates the problem. Annoying.
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Old 12-08-2014, 09:31 AM
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Funny, I was just thinking the same thing as I was waiting for it to load this morning. It seems to me that it's just not slow to load, but it takes a long time to go from page to page and sometimes it freezes. No other site that I go on has these problems.
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This site is so loaded up with ads, that it takes a long time to load. The ads on the left go on forever....
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Loads fast and ad free for me, I have Google Chrome.
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Do most of you use IE11? If so, have you brought up the Task Manager to see what the CPU activity is?

I am having the loading problem under IE11 and if I have Task Manager activated, the CPU is very high according to the TM ICON.

I also experience the non-loading of the entire thread under IE11 and Firefox. Sometimes it take a shutdown/restart of IE/FireFox to get the entire thread to appear. Sometimes several restarts.

Frustrating at the least.

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The ads are not loaded from our server so they would not be impacting the speed. We'll look into the usage reports for today.
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Seems to work OK with Chrome but still real slow on Safari.
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Old 12-09-2014, 09:14 AM
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It appears to be the larger the thread the slower the loading time. Thanks Admin
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Old 12-09-2014, 10:27 AM
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I don't have any problems. It loads right away. I use Google Chrome.
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Mine is slow also. Too many pop-up ads. I realize the need for ad revenue, but it's just getting worse and worse. May have to drop TOTV if this continues.
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I have some occasional slowness with TOTV on Chrome and FireFox but nothing like the long delays on IE11 which border on endless.

I am very comfortable with IE11 and it will always be my default. As much as I use FireFox and Chrome, I have never gotten used to their uniqueness.

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I use chrome and is not slow at all to load
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Could it be the video adds running repeatedly In the post you open up?
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