yeah i noticed that too...

I've had bunches of probs with this site -- the same slowdown loading pages you guys noticed on both my work DSL connection and my home three-meg cable connection, as well as some posts at the bottom of the page not formatted correctly, and the site crashes my Mozilla browser on my Mac at work at times, but the internet explorer browser on the same computer won't load the site at all.
I half wish they'd go back to the last version of the site, I had way fewer problems.

I have noticed when you post messages, or reply to others, sometimes your text doesn't stay in paragraph form. Sometimes it is all on the left hand side of the forum, and skinny, and it makes your thread way too long.

Same problems here....as a matter of fact, it just crashed IE as I was reading this thread. :(
The formatting errors are caused when someone uses an emoticon in their post.
I agree that it's time for a downgrade...

Alright so it's not just me. I thought I had a virus or somethin, lol.

yes this site easily has the worst bandwidth and loading problems I have ever seen. The person who put this site together should be shot!
I am including geocities sites in that to.....

Ya it happens to me and also when there are alot of posts ona page they get cut off and won't show up and some buttons or duds.

I had the same problem when I used Internet Explorer. I switched over to Netscape just out of curiosity and there is no problems with the site.

Yeah, please fix it MK Online staff..............

Yeah, I'm having problems with it... a page can sort of load, but you can't do anything with it. You have to wait several seconds for it to kinda mini reload and set in before you can scroll or reply or anything. Very annoying. Very, very annoying. Also I have the problem where some posts end up a thin column on the left side of the window, and I get a "server busy" page 25% of the time.

Too much load time on this site. I have the same problems and I have cable. It has to be fixed.

Yeah im not liking Version 7 at all...
I barely come here anymore.

Im with you all on this one, I think the word "upgrade" didnt actually come into play with this new version huh?
Bring back the old version, thats what I say, it puts you off visitin the site does this one.

Yeah i agree there are problems, just my is freezing when the page comes up and i use cable.

somethng isnt right with the site, no matter what page i go to it makes my hardrive make this nasty humming noise before it loads.. please fix it or go back to the old style, cos this one isnt really all that nice.

I tried the site on a mac today and it loaded fine!
As far as i can see the loading time is actually fine! The problem is with a few .png images at the top of every page! The logo and some other bits! They take a while to go transparent and the ONLY reason i can think of for this is because the site is using "layers" Which is a booboo if i'm right! One of the handiest things to know about website is to never use frames or layers, they're just so inclined to screw up on different platforms/browsers!

I didn't consider the slowness of the site to be much of a problem at first, I was patient. My main problem was that due to the scripting, certain links (like profile settings eg) cannot be made to open in a seperate window. This is a problem, because I can usually 'solve' the slowness problem down by opening multiple threads in different IE windows, so I can read one while another 3 or 4 are loading.
When you use the front page to link around (like sometimes your forced to), you have to load the page (takes a while), load the linked page (takes a while), reload the original page (yep, takes a while), before you can the next link.
I would prefer to be able to load up the front page ONCE, then get each page I want to go to loading up in seperate sessions, so while the first page still takes a while to appear, the others are loading while you're reading PLUS you don't have to keep reloading the front page.
As a result of all the 'bouncing around' you're forced to do on this site, I generally only ever use the forums nowadays and hope the latest news topics are discussed there.
Peace!

The thing is i'm not sure WHY they used layers in most places!I can't see anything hat couldn't have been done by using simple tables and some intelligent image slicing!

This new update is pissing me off. I too, rarely come here.

yup they definitely need to go back to the old version.

maybe its because we arnt flawless members

It works fine for me but then again, I'm using Mozilla Firefox and as someone (I think CCShadow) explained, the code for the new site is basically specialized for Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, and all the other browsers thus IE runs it incredibly slow.