bratkinson
No longer a newbie, moving up!
- Joined
- Dec 4, 2011
- Messages
- 1,643
- Reaction score
- 318
- Location
- Western MA
- Can others edit my Photos
- Photos OK to edit
As a 'regular' on this web site for over a year, I have always been slightly annoyed with the slow 'first screen' that doesn't run the internal script that allows the password to be input as 'protected' characters until dead last. I've learned that when I logon from the slower computers and network at work, I have to wait perhaps 3-5 seconds until the last 'info box' is displayed at the bottom of the screen before I can securely enter my password. Although entering it early and having it displayed for all to see is not a problem, this site then considers it as an invalid password, since it didn't go through the 'normal' processing necessary.
I can live with that. Annoying, yes. Tolerable, yes.
But, of late, perhaps the past 3-4 weeks, I have repeatedly been 'blown off' the site by simply going to the next screen, whether it be the next page of a multi-page thread, another thread, or even back to the forum 'main page' of all the forums available. Usually, it's the old 'server unavailable' message or something like that. This happens regardless of where I logon...home on any of 3 computers, or at work, on any of 3 of their computers. So it definitely appears to be a TPF server issue.
During the same 3-4 weeks, while entering a fairly lengthy response to a forum post, I get to the very bottom and click 'submit' and the entire thing simply 'locks up'. After waiting 30 seconds or longer, I have no choice but to give it the 3-finger salute and terminate Internet Explorer 8, at work and home. This has happened 4-5 times and and is quickly reaching my 'safety valve' explosion point where I will have 'had enough' and will say 'adios' to The Photo Forum permanently.
Has anyone else had these problems? Is it Windows XP SP3 on 4 computers, Windows 7 SP1 on the other 2? IE8?
Any suggestions?
I can live with that. Annoying, yes. Tolerable, yes.
But, of late, perhaps the past 3-4 weeks, I have repeatedly been 'blown off' the site by simply going to the next screen, whether it be the next page of a multi-page thread, another thread, or even back to the forum 'main page' of all the forums available. Usually, it's the old 'server unavailable' message or something like that. This happens regardless of where I logon...home on any of 3 computers, or at work, on any of 3 of their computers. So it definitely appears to be a TPF server issue.
During the same 3-4 weeks, while entering a fairly lengthy response to a forum post, I get to the very bottom and click 'submit' and the entire thing simply 'locks up'. After waiting 30 seconds or longer, I have no choice but to give it the 3-finger salute and terminate Internet Explorer 8, at work and home. This has happened 4-5 times and and is quickly reaching my 'safety valve' explosion point where I will have 'had enough' and will say 'adios' to The Photo Forum permanently.
Has anyone else had these problems? Is it Windows XP SP3 on 4 computers, Windows 7 SP1 on the other 2? IE8?
Any suggestions?