Problem opening threads

I'm not sure if it's my browser, tried IE and Firefix but I am struggling to open up threads. Some threads dont seem too bad but others are timing out.
Just wondered if it was my pc or other people were finding it too?

 

its the yahoo spiders eating bandwith ... anth's out with the bug spray...

 

Ahhh, good luck with it!


Can you kill the ants downstairs in my kitchen too while you are at it please?

 

Yeah I'm having the same problem and some people have PM'd and emailed me asking what's up. However, I don't get the time out thing, it just looks like it's trying to load the page I want and goes on forever...

Nevermind, it's in hand like Sarge says.

 

Whew! I'm not going crazy! Here I thought it was just me... or the stupid servers at school again

 

Yeah, I got the same ting here!

 

should be fixed now... Im not getting it anymore.

 

Still happening on some threads. Not sure if it has anything to do with it being past 5pm on the work network though .

 

Nah, I'm still getting it too.

 

Odd, am back at home now and I still have the same problem.

 

Im still having it aswell, been having it since this morning allthough im not having it on as many threads now.

 

Its the longer threads such as Grrrr thread, and most of the kung fu threads I can't load up.

 

Thats because the spiders go through everything in the forums. Obviously in the longer threads they'll take longer to check everything...

Just imagine if you had to read every single post on the entire site in the past 3 months - thats what these things are doing.

 

I have no idea what they are or what they do but it sounds nasty!

 

Effectively what a search spider does is it goes through the posts (and anything else we tell it not to) and takes "notes". These "notes" are remembered by the search engine it works for (be it Yahoo, Google or whoever). Whenever someone searches Yahoo etc for a term, the search engine says "I know where I saw that!" and it shows its "notes" it made when it went through the site last as your search result.

After a big search like its doing now it will go away for a while and we wont hear from it too much.

Its like a student revising - they go through their notes from the semester (the threads), make their revision/crib cards (spider's "notes") then sit the exam (the search question) where they regurgitate the answers (the thread links). They then don't go through it all for a while until the next exam, occasionally scanning their notes to keep refreshed (hence the spiders who pretty much live here).

Its probably a lot more complicated than that, but its the simplest way of explaining it.

 

Ahhhh, excellent explanation there Anth. Thanks

 

I'm getting it at the moment too. Not as bad as earlier though.

 

I'm having to wait quite sometime to open threads?

 

It's not as bad as it was for me yesterday but I still can't enter any of the kung fu threads. I think Slips is in there, someone mod him!