I moved to central IL on Oct.3rd and have used my mothers Dell/Vista/DSL rig for keeping in touch.(Mine is in storage).Using IE7 I have yet to experience any freezes of the site and loading the home page has been rapid in most cases.Browsing the forums and galleries has it's usual highs and lows in speed however.

On the plus side,I have had no ads when logged on,so I think things are getting better. That or I'm not online long enough.  

Don't have a speed spell Wiz?

Ive never understood why WC, compared to most sites I visit is so slow, sure some days it whizzes along, but they are few and far between, over the past year or so it seems to me that download counts are down, comments are down, forums are pretty slow etc.. I would have to blame a god portion of that on site unreliability. Its also been raised by others to me....often.

Maybe I think irrationally but it would seem to me that getting the sites running like most other sites, fast, reliable etc is the most basic of needs to maintain a succesful web presence, It literally blows my mind that here I am, I dunno, 3-4 years later experiencing the same issues as I did when I first arrived. I dont think a day goes by that I'm not tapping my mouse in an aggravated fashion as I wait for pages to load.

I typically am on a clean'ish install, no toolbars, blockers, etc.. and its the same in all browsers.

I love it here but I find myself visiting, like some others, less and less.

Sidenote...the OP said 'almost crash'

This is sooo slooow.

I cannot get any of the links to open.

Not happy. I pay too.

I think it's just system load.....when I come on in the morning usually around 6:45am eastern things fly along fine but somewhere between 7 and 8 things start to balk.......I can click on a forum link and wait, wait, wait and then stop it, click again and woosh there it is. It usually happens several times a day. I get the same kind of response at DA and many of the news sites certain times during the day. I don't necessarily see it at ALL other sites but few others have the traffic Wincustomize does.

I've used IE, FF & Opera here and I can't remember a crash I could blame on the site.

I guess it depends on the load, and time of day, as of right now it is flying by for me, no problems at all

Funny thing is that I'm not compaining about slowness. It's the browser freeze for couple of minutes that I'm complaining about.

I know what you mean.

I am sure things will get back to normal soon.

I am really happy to know  that this is happening to more of the community than just me.

It means I'm not the only one with a messed up computer. Lol

I have got to admit that i only froze up once today

and the speed has gone up nicely

Try a room heater

Well, as you can see we have 60 replies...  I am in hope that this is getting noticed.  Deviantart is by far bigger than this and Deviantart.com has a traffic rank of:  112 while Wincustomize.com has a traffic rank of:  5,045, and I never have an issue with that site.  Like many others, i love coming here and being apart of this community.  My member number tells you alone how long i have been here.  I am just concerned and would like to see it fixed.

I guess it actually hasn't crashed but needing to shut down IE7 via task manager in order to unfreeze. It is close enough to a crash for me but it's not an actual crash. It's the google ads causing the freeze ups.

I never wait for the main page to load fully. I press stop as soon as I get the log in box. As a subscriber, I don't get the ads when logged in, so that helps the speed

I do not have constant problems with the front page loading.  But if I try to go from there to let's say the wallpaper section, it just hangs forever. Really annoying! Of all the sites I visit on a regular basis, WC has historically suffered the most from performance issues. Mystifying to me.

There is nothing more I can add here. You guys said it all. I concurr and experience the same issue as Night Train.

I understand your frustration but I don't think it's the site that's the problem. I had some problems w/IE7 freezes. After much research, I ran Windows utility sfc.exe /scannow which checks the validity and intregrity of Explorer system files and replaces those that are corrupted or missing. You need your System Resource CD mounted to run this. It cleared up the problem immediately. Good luck

That would be fine except for the fact that it happens with all browsers, not just IE. I have the same issues using FF.

Yes.. it is the site. I've experienced these issues on multiple systems. Other sites do not do this.

The only other possibility is a router involved somewhere in the chain that people are hitting. Don't discount our findings. Those that have pointed them out are not dummies by any means.

It is unfortunate that there is no response from the powers that be other than the short one from ID.  Unfortunately there was never a peep about the server transition being finished or not finished after the announcement that it would begin last Monday. As noted, this has been going on for a LOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGGGG time.

I agree.

I hope Stardock sees it as a problem with the WC. I hope there not in Denial.

 That would be a problem then.

If it ends up not being a problem with WC. It still needs to be ivestagated why it is happening.

It's happened to me twice this afternoon, having to shutdown in task manager....and that's a first for me...also ridiculously slow tonight....(IE6)...

site has been up and down for a long while now....but this is unusually severe...something afoot....

Same thing here.  I can usually get on the front page relatively fast, but most times, when I try to access either a gallery or the forums, the browser hangs and then stops responding...and I have to CAD out to close my browser.  I NEVER have these problems on any other site I visit. 

I, like a number of people here, strongly feel it is a site issue, not our issue, or else we would have the same problems on the other sites as well.

Running XP SP2, IE7.

I was wondering about ads... I don't get much freezes so far but same time I'm a subscriber for this site.

For this site and ONLY this site? I somehow doubt it...

I believe it is a site issue, and I also believe it will get fixed, eventually. I have faith that WC and Stardock will get it right. After all, the way I see it, they have no choice. I believe SD/WC to be at the top of the skinning community, and bound to stay there. Just a thought.

Yeah. Seems that whatever problem it was are gone. I haven't had a freeze for couple of days so far.