Gather's Advances Are Passing Me By

I Love Gather!

I've loved it ever since I started figuring out how to work and navigate it.

I joined in March of 2006. It was a different Gather then, the layout had a grass-roots collegey feel that I just loved.

Then came the new Gather. The global village replaced with a shopping mall feel and decked out in an orange color scheme that matched a 1970's shag carpet I once owned. I have fond memories of the 70s, even though I never did take to malls.

Gatherites were the same and the mechanics were similar so I rode that change without complaint.

But something in the new change has crippled me.

With the addition of digg and del.icio.us, an excruciatingly long page delay now occurs. I wait entire minutes before being able to scroll an article. The more comments the longer the delay.

I have waited an entire five minutes for a page with sixty-plus comments to load, before I could start paging-down.

According to the computer gurus I know the delay originates from a setting that Gather makes, not something in my browser. Having visited other pages with digg and del.icio.us links I'm inclined to believe them.

I acknowledge that I don't see many others complaining about slowness. My Pentium3; 933 MHz; 256 Mb ram is behind the times, so I guess I'm going to need a new computer if I want to keep on Gathering.

Anybody wanna buy some paintings?

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