[An Old Man]

"When the new and UNIMPROVED is incompatable with one's system, be it WebTV or a slower loading computer, " getting used to a new system " is an impossibility."

I have a moderately high speed link (On average just over 1.4mb) From the time I clicked on the hyperlink to this thread until the thread was completely loaded was something in the neighborhood of 30 - 40 seconds.

Now that's fairly fast, but it used to take less than 3 seconds to do the same job before someone messed with the system.

I suspect that the server on the other end is dishing out a lot of crap that is not really necessary to read these messages.

I have saved all of the links to the various news sources. Today I spent a good deal of my online time going directly to the source. I did miss out on some of the dialogue that I enjoy reading here but lately this place is getting to look a lot like usenet, and I can do without most of that.

Jim, bring back the old format! Please.

[ironman]

Loaded for me in less than 10 seconds on a 28.8 connection. Must be something going on with your browser (with JavaScript????).

[tomkat]

0.4 second reload on dsl.

but heark ye whiners !
yall got the flag burned - congrats !

[nopardons]

You're talking about seconds, it is taking " webbies " minutes , though it does seem a tad faster right now, for everything to load . I'm reading a book, as I now wait for loading. I AM NOT KIDDING !

When the change was first instituted, my web unit kept shutting off, becuase it's on a timer ( and NO, I have NO control over that ! ) , and it took too long . THAT NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, AND NO , IT IS NOT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING DYSFUNCTIONAL IN THE WEB UNIT !