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there should be a limit on how many people can come on this site at a time cause all after noon the site was completely full the pages were really super slow where i just left i checked whos in the room and there was a whole page of people not even guests i have high speed and it was slow "is there something that can be done ??? :confused:

In my opinion and Schatzie's too (she just spoke in Yorkinese) there should be NO limit to when, where, or how often or long one spends their own time on this site.

If I want to personally read each thread/post, and at times even have to read it twice I will. If need be I will spend all day and night responding with my honest and sincere feelings to their thread in hopes to help or enlighten. I by no means want someone to "limit" my time that I full heartedly give to others.

This web site is everything I could ever hope it to be. (other than have a few more emoticons, now that would be nice) :D

yea but like now it took forever to load there are to many people on this site i wasnt able to even come on till now and its still slow its not far to the people that have been here a while they cant even go on

:eek: I would hope my time was never limited on this site. I am so glad I found it and wish I had it when I had my Katie. Even as a past Yorkie owner, I have learned so much. It makes me feel "warm and fuzzie" to be in a "community" where other people understand my love for Yorkies and dogs in general!
Not everyone is a dog person and understands what we go thru for our canine friends whether it's a happy time or a time of grief. I love this site and THANK YOU TO THE ONES WHO GOT IT STARTED!!! :D :D :D

Thank you for your feedback. We apologize for the slowness of the site at times, we are working on it. We have not experienced too much slowness ourselves the past few days, but we do understand that it can be frustrating. The popularity of YorkieTalk the past few weeks is astounding and overwhelming, but it brings us great pleasure to see everyone enjoying the new company.

We have already upgraded the server twice in YorkieTalk's short lifetime. We will not ever limit a person's ability to spend time on YorkieTalk, and we will always allow unregistered users to freely view the site, as many people like to get a feeling of a forum first before signing up, or they are scared to sign up for something they are unsure of. Thus, the forum will be an open forum for all to see and peruse.

However, we have limited those unregistered users access. Unregistered users are not being able to browse through the Photo Gallery, nor view attachments. If you are reading this and you are unable to view pictures, that is the reason. Simply register at the below link (YorkieTalk is and always will be FREE!) and you will have access to pictures and attachments.

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/register.php

admin thanks i like this site i think its great and it was very frustrating to not be able to use it thanks :D

I'm new here, but would be horrified if my time were limited. I already know so much about Yorkies, but being able to come homeand sit for a few minutes or even hours to find out something new or help a new owner out makes me happy (especially being sick and having nothing else to do right now). I would hate to have a time limit. I think slow moments are something we just kind of have to deal with on the internet. Even with High Speed, DSL, what have you, there will be slow periods b/c of high traffic times during the day. We just live and move on I guess. Although, I do agree it can be annoying. :confused:

WOW!!!!!! I'm kinda glad I decided to read through this thread....I thought my computer was just getting s-l-o-w!!!
So glad I have no time limit....even though I'm sure my hubby and others wish I did!

just to clarify things here i never said that there be a limit on how much time someone spends just on how many people are on like 50 at a time or something i dont even bother going on here that much anymore and im thinking about not comming at all cause half the time the site dont even come up i know its not my computer cause every other site works fine it takes forever to just post something and for attachments to show

It seems every site I go to is SLOW, of course I have the dreaded 3 strikes against me 1. old fashion dial up 2. AOL 3. Macintosh computer. Seems I spend at least half of my computer time waiting for pages to open up. I have just learned to kick back and wait. I will fix a cup of coffee, take a potty break, twindle my thumbs and sometimes just shout at my computer which does seem to help. lol
On a more serious note I have to add that I absolutely love this forum. Seems that since I've joined I spend the better part of my day and night here. I just love reading all of the older threads and looking at all of the pictures in the gallery. It is just so nice to have found such a great group of people here who all share a common interest. Before coming to this forum I often felt like I bored my friends with endless stories about my Yorkies, but now I feel like I have found new friends who love to hear it and I love to hear everyone else's stories about there babies too.
I guess the word is out about what a great forum this is which is why so many new yorkie lovers have come to visit. So, I will gladly accept the sometimes slow pages for the great reward of new friends.

Thank you, Kim!!! And if I haven't told you already ... welcome!! Love what you said:

"I just love reading all of the older threads and looking at all of the pictures in the gallery. It is just so nice to have found such a great group of people here who all share a common interest. Before coming to this forum I often felt like I bored my friends with endless stories about my Yorkies, but now I feel like I have found new friends who love to hear it and I love to hear everyone else's stories about there babies too.
I guess the word is out about what a great forum this is which is why so many new yorkie lovers have come to visit. So, I will gladly accept the sometimes slow pages for the great reward of new friends."

When new people take the time to read the older threads there's lots and lots of information that answers questions they may have. Also they can learn a little about the members ... I find the old threads fascinating! We have lots of friends that aren't "animal people" and we find we don't stay in touch like we did before we bought Toto! :(
The site has gotten slow several times since I joined ... I just "put up with it" because I know the admin. is working on it and sure enough the problem clears up!! Just takes a little time and patience. ;)

Kim, you words regarding Yorkie Talk are so very thoughtful and appreciated. Yes, I believe so many of us deal with their slow computers, and at times the sites they log onto. But as you said, when there is something worth the wait that is what we do..wait!

I can truly relate to you about your adoration about your Yorkie(s). I often feel my family and friends tire easily over my endless email of pictures and stories of Schatzie. Yet, when logging on to Yorkie Talk I feel all my pic's and post's are looked at and appreciated, as this entire site loves YORKIE'S, we all have a common bond here with such respect and appreciation.

I truly appreciate your outlook on this all! :)

I'm sorry to hear you possibly not coming to YorkieTalk on account of the slowness. One suggestion would be to possibly try to view YT late at night or early in the morning, when there are not as many users online. I've only heard of one other person say the YorkieTalk servers are slow.

I personally have only had one time where Yorkie Talk didn't work well for me and it was cleared up quick as can be.

I've never met so many people who are both animal lovers as well as just plain nice people. We all come from such different places and lifestyles, but can really come together here.

Also, I've noticed that whenever there is a problem (some horrible post, etc) it is taken care of as soon as someone is contacted about it. That means a lot to me as I hate to see anyone's feelings get hurt over someone just out for a few "laughs"

All in all, I would say Yorkie Talk has been the best message board I've ever been to and it would take a lot to keep me away now that I'm so addicted to both the people and their adorable dogs! I too have family members and friends who just can't relate and it's so nice to know that other people actually care about their furbabies as much as I do.

So, I just want to say thanks to FastEddie, Junebug and the crew for making sure that this is a wonderful and friendly place for all of us Yorkie Lovers! :aimeeyork

After reading this thread last night I did get frustrated with the slowness....I have found coming here in the early AM is best for me....I live on the east coast and likely most folks are still sleeping.
In the early AM this site moves like lightning!!!!!! But last night it was really
s-l-o-w!
I have found a similar site....*********....with similar discussions and questions....and many of the same folks. I typed on that site last night and back to catch up with you all this am....
Works for me!!!!!!

We do apologize for the slowness last night, as we were upgrading some of the forum software, and instead of completely turning off the site for users, we tried to keep it up while we did our updates.

As far as speed is concerned, our excellent Web host informs us that we have more than enough bandwidth to serve our membership. We have not noticed any speed issues this morning via our informal poll from across the USA (and world), users reported of no slowdowns. We take your feedback very seriously and want to make your YorkieTalk experience a positive one. If you experience slowness, please check to see if you uploading anything (P2P file sharing programs will make your Internet experience slow, even if you have high-speed DSL or cable modem) and that you do not have any type of spyware installed on your computer. Also, there are many computers (routers) the data travels through before YorkieTalk pages are loaded onto your computer, and unfortunately, some of those computers sometimes do bog down. That is beyond our control.

Here's a list of free programs that you can use to remove spyware:

http://netsecurity.about.com/od/spyw...reespyware.htm

I want to thank the administration for this wonderful site. I love this site. The people here is great. Thank you so much for the upgrades. I love the new smileys. Keep up the great work.

thanks its been better today i know its not my computer 1.its only this site thats slow 2. my brother does computers for his job and he spends 1000,s of dollars on computer parts so its not slow thanks for being concerned :D

ADMIN.......

Yep...the site is MUCH faster this evening......thanks for all the help and support!!!!!!

I just also wanted to say how much I have enjoyed this site. I've never been a person to do much with message boards, or chat rooms, etc. I wasn't even sure why I was coming back so often to read. But, I think others have summed it up best when they said that it is nice to go to a place where there are so many others who love their Yorkie as much as you do and love to hear about the first walk, funny groomer story, new shirt, leash, etc. All of my friends and family would go nuts if I didn't have this site to make doggie friends with.

Thanks to YT and all the members for being such a wonderful bunch of folks and doggies!! :aimeeyork

:note: Your having browser hangups, slower loading pages mean that your cache & History needs to be clean :) after you have done that, cold boot(shut down)
log on and you should be ready to go! if you are still having problems then you need to defrag your drive, you can do this when your done for the evening! hope this helps

You know not everyone that is listed as on, is actually on posting. I have cable which is always up (unlike dial up - unless I totally shut the PC down) and if I leave the PC on this page without hitting log out, it looks like I am on here but could be out of the house completely.

i am on here a lot, before and after work and i have never had a problem with it being slow......... are you sure it isnt the servers? or a problem with the internet in youre neigborhood? (i know when i go to my moms home it is really slow as well) also it depends on what programs you have running in teh background ect.... if you have a viruscan program working youre computer is not going to load as fast, and it also depends on how many pages you have up from the internet.......... but.......... like ive said, i have no problem whatsoever since i got my new computer :D

that was months ago i posted that it was not my computer they were doing updates or something like that

The same thing happened to me last week and I wasn't even on a dial up. I thought I wouldn't be able to make it through the day! NO YORKIETALK! I was devastated, but later that afternoon I got on, and picked right back up. I don't think it should be limited. Unfortunately, a great site like this will sometimes get bottlenecked by too many users. But, everyone should have the opportunity to use it.

Hey, don't knock Macintosh :) I was just going to suggest to Browniesmom to get an Apple! AOL does suck and so does dial-up.

the page sometimes doesn't work for me and I think its just my stupid slow disgusting huge box of an HP at work.

i have a made computer all the best peices my brother made it i have cable

i dont know if any of this makes sense but this is what his computer has i dont know what it means

CPU- P4 2.6c HT (800) @ 3.25 GHz
Mobo- Abit IC7
Ram- 1 GB DDR400 (Pc3200).
Video- GeForce 6800 O\C (12x1\6)
Sound- Sound blaster Audigy 2 ZS & KLIPSCH PROMEDIA GMX
Storage- Raptor 73 Gb 10,000 Rpm, WD 80 Gb 7200 Rpm,
16x DVDR 4x DL\DVD9
Misc- D-Link router ,
Logitech MX1000 wireless mouse
& Lite-on mini Ir kb. 600w PSU

Sounds good. I was kidding about getting the Mac -- just finding a way to advocate it ;)

Hi brownies mom :wavey: have your brother update your memory (ram) You will be amazed how fast your computer loads! aol is such an enhanced program that reguires way to much ram along with your other programs that is drawing off of it! and if you have alot of desktop icons that as well eats memory as well in your system tray. your brother will know how to do this. get at least 120GB or more? more ram faster loading and we all need the speed :D

NOTE
I forgot that you mentioned you have a Mac, I am not sure if the same info would apply to mac? My experience is limited to IBM windows systems