It's been dreadful all evening ...up until about 5 minutes ago ! 

And........bingo!  Reality shows have finished and the forum starts working better. Hmmmmmm 

Been murder trying to get in !  And bits of the forum kept vanishing 

Very suspicious isn't it?

We must carry our own special forum virus then.  Not pleased with how this is playing out atm. 

Nor me ................it's been going on a bit long hasn't it? I love this place but if this is a permanent state of affairs I can't see it boding well for the future

I know.  Feel the same foreboding. 

******throws in a box of this for good measure - I hear it does wonders for 'blockages'******

Hiya Slinki Dink

I just noticed that it all went well until there were a couple of new posts in the jungle thread and then it all slowed down.

I think it's definitely stickie related .....the minute someone posts in there it all slows down. They're not called stickies for nothing IMO.

evenink Soozy  

just went all cog coggitty cog cog there , and stickies vanished ! 

Its all numbers related only 25 people on now and whoosh!>>>> Broadband speed is back.

I know you guys are so frustrated with this, and I can't blame you, but as I said a few days ago, we really ARE working on this, and it WILL improve.

I hope you can hang in there until that happens...

It's working fine for me Dame

the stickies have vanished for me again Baz and really bad lag on chrome 

we're hanging on Lori, although the mushy peas are on hold 

Thanks Lori...I'm hanging , I'm hanging It's actually working ok for me ....right at this moment But

the last post flew through Baz...its very sporadic at times 

Yes, that went so fast I posted twice

I'm off out... and crossing my fingers for masterchef tonight 

Totally understand. 

Slow loading pages and cogs for me, too.

Yes, I can see it....

It has speeded up for me atm, Lori.

Same here 

it's like trying to get into Fort Knox getting in here 

Is this the strictly thread??

Slow, slow, quick, quick slow...?

No wrong one this one goes slow, slow, slower, slow. Sort of a Rumba in s-l-o-w motion.

I'm sure it's not deliberate   

If I were to guess (and it's only a guess from me), I'd say it has to do with the load: you guys appear to stick to something of a schedule, and the slowdowns happen when the bulk of you are online.

Lori...there aren't that many of us left in the thread to post. Someone yesterday suggested deleting the archived material to take a load off the forum, maybe that would work

That makes sense Lori ...but there have been loads more of us in the past and it worked fine