This site keeps freezing on me !

[Doggett]

It's only this site !
It's only started happening in the last week or two.

Why is it freezing ?

[Andrew]

Can you explain "freezing" a bit more?  I understand you mean your browser stops. 

Does your browser load the page, then freeze?  Are you able to do anything else when it is frozen?  Are there any pages that do/do not freeze?  Does it happen every time or is it sporadic?  What browser are you using?

Please try loading these different pages and let me know if you experience anything different between them:

http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php

http://www.badmovies.org/

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/fiendface/

http://www.badmovies.org/search.html

[Ash]

What I've noticed in the past week or two is the forum pages freezing slightly.

When I'm done looking at a forum page, I'll click the back button to go back to the previous page.
It will "freeze" on the page I was reading.  But if I scroll my mouse wheel, the page unfreezes and loads the previous page.
It also sometimes does this if I'm going forward to a new page.

Does that make sense?  

It doesn't do it on any of the review pages or the homepage.  Only here on this forum.

[Doggett]

Can you explain "freezing" a bit more?  I understand you mean your browser stops. 

Does your browser load the page, then freeze?  Are you able to do anything else when it is frozen?  Are there any pages that do/do not freeze?  Does it happen every time or is it sporadic?  What browser are you using?

Please try loading these different pages and let me know if you experience anything different between them:

http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php

http://www.badmovies.org/

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/fiendface/

http://www.badmovies.org/search.html

I'm using internet Explorer

I always go onto the forum page, and that's wear I'm having the trouble.
It's happened three times today !

What I've noticed in the past week or two is the forum pages freezing slightly.

When I'm done looking at a forum page, I'll click the back button to go back to the previous page.
It will "freeze" on the page I was reading.  But if I scroll my mouse wheel, the page unfreezes and loads the previous page.
It also sometimes does this if I'm going forward to a new page.

I get that too.

[zombie no.one]

> this has happened to me as well. page freezing then unable to even close the window,had to restart windows. only on this forum.

happened a few times last week but seems fine now... assumed it was just my comp.

[Trevor]

Yikes, I knew it was cold in South Africa but I didn't realize that this cold snap would lead to this site freezing....................oh, never mind... 

[Andrew]

If you are only seeing it on the forum, and it also happens when you hit the back button, then there are two possibilities.  The most likely is that it is being caused by an advertisement misbehaving, since there are ads that only run on the forum.  The other is that the forum is causing the delay, because of either some scripting trick in the code or even the database being really busy. 

Still, the most likely cause would be an advertisement.  I'll see if there's anything I can track down via that route.

[Mr. DS]

It happens to me a lot too and I'd vote for the ads.  Simply because the page loads find but then you get the swirly thing in the ad spots before it locks. 

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Starting this week. Its happening to me too, but I have to kill the browser window.
-Ed

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

The site is really killing IE 50% of the tuime, both on my hoem and work comps

[Andrew]

Well nuts.  I actually made changes about 3 or 4 days ago that I hoped would help the issue - and still no good?  Does it happen only on the forum?  I ask, because knowing if it happens just here or elsewhere on the site can help me pin down what is causing the issue.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

forum only, and only on the initial screen.  http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php
Just locks right up

-Ed

[zombie no.one]

site froze on me earlier today, big time. had to restart my pc

- just logged back in to let you know, Andrew. not sure what this is...

[Andrew]

I made some more changes.  This is definitely being difficult to track down, and I'm concerned that it might have something to do with the forum software update that came out - the timeline for when I installed that and when the problems seemed to start is very close.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

This time it was in a thread.   Its really frustrating.