There have been many reports of slowdowns on the site over the last week or so, but the symptoms seem to vary; some people can read the forums without any trouble but find the system too slow to make release notes, while others can release books but can't register them, and still others have not noticed any particular problems at all.
If you have not changed your browser, security settings, or your service provider recently, then it's probably some combination of site load and, perhaps, other internet load as well, though it's hard to pin down. Try checking the site at different times of day to see if performance is better. And you may want to try using the plaintext version of the site, which does less formatting of each page (though it still pulls up the same data). To try that, go to http://plaintext.bookcrossing.com (or just replace the "www" in any BookCrossing URL with "plaintext"). If you still can't access the site, or if you get on but are noticing that it's very slow, please let people know. If you can get to the "contact us" page on the site ( http://www.bookcrossing.com/contact ), use that to submit a support issue, including as much information as you have about how long you've had a problem, how serious it is (slowdowns vs. can't get on at all), what times of day you've tried, what browser(s) you've tried, etc. [If you can't get to the site at all, you could post the info here with a request for someone to pass it along.] I don't know whether there's a lot that can be done to improve performance, but at least with more information it could help indicate how serious the problem is getting. -GoryDetails Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at: http://bookcrossing.com/friend/GoryDetails Have you told a friend today? http://bookcrossing.com/tellafriend Archives and email list settings: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
