Slow loading times?

Does anyone else's computer act like a bitch while loading this site? Everytime I visit here my computer seems to get stalled for a few moments with all the pics and videos on here. I have a 6 yr old lap top which has gotten slow over time so maybe it's just me?

I was wondering if there was a way I could hide the videos while viewing the site? That seems to be the main problem.

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Permalink Reply by CorpseQueen on September 13, 2008 at 1:45am

i have dial-up and an old shitty laptop as well, so my internet is a slow piece of shit anyway but i do have a problem loading peoples pages to comment them because of the videos but the site in general works great for me

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Permalink Reply by plastastik on September 13, 2008 at 5:21am

I have the same problem, but there is just so much that has to load on these pages, so ofcourse it's going to take forever.

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Permalink Reply by pierced_punked_kitten on September 13, 2008 at 11:12am

oh ok, well good to know it isn't just me with this problem ;)

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Permalink Reply by Giant Mohawk Man on September 15, 2008 at 11:01am

I did do some work a few weeks ago to the homepage, just to limit the bandwidth caused by many videos and other resources. Those got moved into the "about" section.

As cyanide said, I mentioned during our chat on Thursday, there should be a new update out middle of this week. Not sure how much it will increase speed, but supposedly there will be a version for your mobile phone.

I'll let the everyone know when it comes out, but the mobile version might be a great way to run the network faster on an older laptop or dial-up, since I imagine it will cut out on videos and larger images.

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Permalink Reply by Kobalos on September 28, 2008 at 3:04pm

A bit late seeing this. You could try Google's new internet browser, called Chrome - which is (usually) very fast to use generally:

http://www.google.com/chrome

Then use that instead of Internet Explorer to surf the web.