The new forum loads so super slowly for me.

Am I the only one with this problem? The old forum loaded up much faster. The new one is so slow that I hate to even bother with it anymore:(

I agree it has been a headache since it has changed and now it wont let me log into chat either.

Yep.. it's boggy to me too. Hopefully they'll continue to tweak the site and it will get better. Or else we'll just get used to it.. LOL

Amanda, it is not just you...loading all those advertisng graphics is what is slowing us down.. it infuriates me, too.

Mimi

Amanda, it is not just you...loading all those advertisng graphics is what is slowing us down.. it infuriates me, too.

Mimi

I was gonna say the same thing its the ads slowing us down i hate it.....

I downloaded google chrome and did an ad blocker, so I don't see the ads, but it is still slower than before. It is nice to not have all that stuff flashing at me now.

http://chat.lapbandtalk.com:35555/123flashchat.swf

Here is the link to ad free chat....of course its down right now...Ughhh I hate the new site!!

Firefox with adblock pro.

You can always scroll down to the bottom left on your screen where you will see a dropdown box. Switch to mobile mode and it will eliminate all the advertisements and load much quicker.

I just installed a Safari ad blocker and there are no ads anymore and the site is SO much faster. I'm also liking the layout of the website much better now sans advertising. Much easier to navigate. It was pretty crazy to see what the heck was going on with all the ads.

I did google chrome with an ad blocker. Much better for me too. Still somewhat slower though.

We're still working on tweaking things. Please let me know if things get better or worse.

We're still working on tweaking things. Please let me know if things get better or worse.

Please bring back the old website, some days I can get on the chat and like yesterday and today I cannot get on the chat site. Even when I get on the chat site, the names are blocked except for the first two letters of their names and I cannot access their profile to see if they are kids or adults to be able to talk to them? I prefer the adults who are here for support, not the kids that use this as another outlet for their "my space" talk.

It took me a while to get the ticker on and finally got that with the help of other viewers on here but all these ads are very annoying and distracting to what this website is suppose to do. I come on here every day to reenforce my mind on the band and have done so for the last two years, I really really need this on a regular basis to keep focused. I know I have to keep in touch with my band for life and this is an ongoing battle for me, so any help you give us oldies trying to get more modern would be appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help.

We've made some changes and tweaks to the site. Are you finding the site loading a lot quicker for you now ?

It is very slow and I have a brand new computer it also keeps coming up 400 bad request error most of the time. I dont have a problem with any other site but this one.

The errors you received we due to us moving LBT to a new home.

Over the years LBT has grown quite a bit and we thought it would be a great idea to move the web site to "the cloud." It was a fantastic idea in concept but didn't work as planed. We had quite a few outages and pages on the web site were taking ages to load. We recently moved back to our own array of servers and our members should experience a lot more stability and speed. We plan on increasing our capacity shortly and our members experience should only get better.

We also made some major changes to the back/front end used for LBT. We had over 1,500,000 posts to convert and over 100,000 members to migrate to our new platform. We've completed almost all of our major changes and you will continue to see new and useful features added to LBT on a regular basis. This new platform will allow us to scale and grow without running in to issues we've had previously.

I'm here listening to our members complaints, comments and feedback and we will continue to improve our community based on your valuable feedback.