SLOW PAGE LOADING

Did I Not warn you guys this was going to happen eventually? LOL. Never the less R8 did some stellar work, and if our bandwidth magically increases I'll comission him to do one for me. LOL

Ahhhh. Nope. Can't say it is...... Maybe try deleting your cookies in your Internet settings? Thread has been moved to Community Dscussions too so don't stress :-)

I too am having this problem, even after having deleted my chocolate chip biscuits. many times too I have had to click on an option multiple times for it to load.

Hey Guys, It it our animated GIF's? I'll replace mine with a static one if I need to. Please advise. Thanks.

@ DB, I think so, as soon as i changed mine I noticed an improvement in loading, but some pages still take a while when there are a lot of gifs, so IMO iy looks like the gifs are the culprit! P.S. Hows the wife, LOL

Hi everyone, Yes the GIFs are using up a lot of memory when visiting the site - that's why it may be slow for some users. For me, thankfully my internet is fairly fast so I don't experience these down times. But I aim to make this site accessible and quick for everyone. I will be changing my GIF and asking that others do the same. As much fun as they are, the forums are getting too big now to allow them for speed's sake. Also, with the latest improvement of session time, if you don't click "LOG OUT" when you leave, your session remains active and is constantly being called by the database, so in logging out properly and not just closing your browser when leaving, you will help speed up the forums as well that way. Just a thought. But thank you very much to Ripley Clone 8 for his generous works in creating GIFs for many of us. I will keep mine and the ones hosted on our server for those select users so that we may keep them for later. If the forums slow down after the film's release we can bring them back. But for now, if we could all update to a static profile pic, that would be most appreciated. Thanks everyone, and sorry for the lagging for those experiencing it.

Be Honest "BugHunter"...You actually Killed a Xenomorph once right? "I heard things...I heard things" {Spoken Like Robert Deniro in Good Fellas}

@Bughunter: thank you for addressing this i too thought it might have been these cool looking GIFs, but after posting this topic, i noticed that once the awesome looking hi-res Orrery image loads that is in the back round, i am able to navigate this site without the initial loading problems that compelled me to start this thread guess i need a bit more patience when i come here i wasn't aware that the GIFs that folks use on here take up memory hope you are able to resolve that issue if needed again, much thanx for the clarification

Ah yes, the background as well. If you haven't visited the site in a few days, just click REFRESH and let the page load. Once its done, your browser loads faster cause its already downloaded the image. The new Orrey background spans I think its 3000 pixels wide... so yeah it's a big one. But also the GIFs were bogging the server down quite a bit. Especially the ones that went through a full scene from one of the movies. 10 MB some of them are. So yeah, I've changed mine to the new default profile pic. When others do the same, you should notice an improvement.

@Bughunter: i will do that. refresh the page. the Orrery back drop looks very, very cool! 10MB for one GIF....wow! and eeeks! sucks that they are taking up so much memory, i was tempted to upload one, but i decided the Ron Cobb "HAZARD" standard i made in Illustrator would have to do.

I will try to remember to log out in the future also. I am having problems getting on here sometimes but i think its because i use google chrome and i have been experiencing issues with that as well.

Your welcome everyone! Thankfully a week or two ago I was able to upgrade my Photobucket account now i'm able to upload any GIF image to the Photobucket server instead of posting it on Postimage.org and having BH upload them to this server. GIF images can be quite memory hogs but depending on the server your using it from it can affect the server. I know Bug Hunter knows more about computer tech then I do but maybe uploading them to the photobucket server instead of uploading them to this server might break the problem. I'm not sure. I just thought that might be a solution. Also I keep getting this message: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@prometheus-movie.aliensvspredatorspectrum.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache Server at www.prometheus-movie.com Port 80

That's kind of good to know because that's the same message im getting rc8.

Okie dokie I'll change my GIF :-( anyone got a Guyver Zero image I can use? :-D

Nevermind, I found a Unit instead :-D

Like your new default Cypher!

Thanks RC8 :-D

Its not your cache. Its not the gifs. Its the background image on the site itself. Its a huge file and the site owner should resize it for web and render it as a compressed png file. I do wordpress sites for a living. This is a nice little site and I dig it. That one change would make the site lighting fast!

@ Flacvinyl - its not just the background, I've had problems whenever there are lots of gifs in a thread, thus the gifs were the main culprit. Since most of us have reverted back to still images I have noticed a massive improvement in loading times!