It happens to me as well - really annoys me when I'm on in school checking whats happening and teachers walk behind you

Same with me, can be quite frustrating when a error pops up and I haven't looked through any of the threads with new posts.

Anyone having difficulties getting on this afternoon? I'm guessing yes because I'm the only 'active user in the past 15minutes'

Yep, page wouldn't load.

Same as, I think it has been "down" pretty much all afternoon.

yeah ..i brought this up in the mod section , not sure if O Dogg is aware of it yet . It is really annoying as in my case it is ok for a while then goes down again , happened about five or six times so far today .

I believe we have some new servers coming soon guys.
Sorry for the inconvenience this is causing.

We have recently made some Database and server improvements for the forum but are hoping to improve on this further. Are you still experienceing these problems?

Its very slow - accessing links and stuff I mean. Takes ages for pages to load

Millsy.....can you be a bit more specific as to what is slow...e.g which links etc?

I can't speak for Millsy as such The General, but I kept geting the error message "HTTP 500 Internal Server Error" at work today, and this evening "the website cannot locate the page"

I thought it sounded as though it was a problem my end, but its only on here that I get it. It can be pretty much any thread, or any post I try to open, rather than a specific part of the forum - it seems to "time out".

For some reason it seems to happen to me more in the afternoon, but it has occurred at least 5 or 6 times this evening.

*edit - make that 7 - just happened again trying to post this.

Same happens to me occasionally ^

me too!!!!

me four!

if you click in a link to a post, or sub-forum, it will take ages to load. and half the time you get error messages.

Yeh Im getting the same.
General, if you look in the mod forum, we try and keep record of how often the site goes down - we have seen an increase over the last week or so where the forum just won't load.

And myself

General - its when you click on a thread link, the page takes ages to load but on other sites its fine. bit odd

yeah ...its the same for most of us i think ...annoying i know ...hopefully it wont get any worse and any problems will be sorted soon ..

I have never seen anyone with a sig after each of their posts on here, do I have a setting disabled so I cant see these or is it that they just arent allowed?

In the FAQ it says:
To add a signature to a post you must first create one; this is done via your profile.

Yet I dont see anywhere in the profile to create one...

Just a little query I wanted sorting out ...

I don't think we can have sigs at all here, xploit.

When posting a link, how can I add my on text to the link rather that the full URL. For example, I wanted my link to read:
Boruc Pens New Deal

but all I can do is:
http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/sport-news/scottish-football/2008/01/06/artur-boruc-seals-three-year-5-5m-deal-with-celtic-78057-20276690/