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[don7]

Yesterday, I could access the main page but when  accessed the "Community" tab above I pressed the "forum" tab but the site just hung up at that point. This went on for an hour or so, I had rebooted in the interm. Other sites and forums worked fine

Later, I could access the main page, then tab to the forum page but when I tried to access a topic the computer hung up. The little green bar would activate and start to access the topic but it would hang up. Checked other sites and they were working property.

Could this be a problem with my IE explorer version or is it something on this site?

[JeremyB]

I use firefox and I found it hanging really bad yesterday at times, like you it was when I clicked on the community tab.

[howmus]

Yep, the site was running      S     L      O     W       last night.  They must have been doing maintenance or something.  I think it has nothing to do with your browser.

73

[Eric97123]

Same here. But it seems better today

[sfcouple]

Same problems last night with Google Chrome...today is normal.

Wayne 

[blownout cylinder]

Quick right now...last night was "Night Crawler" time....

[tstage]

Yea, mine was slow for a little while last night.  Works fine at the moment..  It happens periodically.  Wade may be doing some maintenance to the server..

Tom

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Yes, I had the same problem. It took me over half an hour to make one post. The site was running slower than snail mail.

[PennCentral99]

Seemed to be an internet problem.  I had this issue with other sites as well.

[bogp40]

PennCentral99

Seemed to be an internet problem.  I had this issue with other sites as well.

Usually when this problem occurs w/ the Forum, I will check the Atlas Forum and 99% of the time I can "flash" my way around at Atlas. This problem is MR related.

[luvadj]

I've pulled the rest of my hair out trying to find the problem and I finally figured it out (I hope).....My landing page for MR is "mrr.trains.com". The player in the center that runs those continuous 5 or so ads was playing havoc with my computer.

My mouse and everything else would alternately quit and come back...jerking along on the screen, so I crawled to the pause button and when I clicked it, everything went back to normal....very weird. Mind you, I run Linux and Firefox normally, so I went to my Windows partition and sure enough, it was doing it there as well with IE and Firefox, so It's a site thing and I've made a new bookmark For the main forum listings and all is well for now.

It's on the site somewhere, that's a for certain and possibly has something to do with Flash or Java

[twhite]

Me too, last night.  It's fine today, but now my other frequently visited site (Classic Film Forum) has gotten hung up.  But then, I'm on AOL and ANYTHING can happen, LOL!

Tom

[tgindy]

luvadj

I've made a new bookmark For the main forum listings and all is well for now.

http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/default.aspx?GroupID=8 is my URL to MR Forums, and; first-entry to anything at cs.trains.com with its pulldown menu access at the top of the website.

Firefox Portable is the primary browser due to its extensibility (the plugins), and; a recent browser discovery -- Lightning-fast QtWeb Portable Browser -- Now is preferred for "website-intensive-browsing" at websites like MR Forums.

One of QtWeb's neatest features is "instant compatibility switching" to Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome, or QtWeb.  Thus, Internet Explorer, with its resources-bloat, is now only necessary for the handful of websites still programming web-code to Microsoft's proprietary standards instead of open-source & global standards.