Is it my Computer or is Gather taking forever to load?

It must be Gather. It's very hard for me to select groups when posting an article right now.It took 1 minute to select 1 group. It's gotta be a Gather Glitch.
It happened the other day too! I noticed it when the new format for selecting groups to publish to came out. Hope it all gets better soon!

whewwww, I thought I needed to get a new computer! LOL

It's you. I am flying on gather right now.

I'm going to take a chance that this comment will actually work (more than 9 of 10 are disconnecting me from Gather and not posting). I have been emailing with tech support on this.

In the meantime, you didn't say if you were on dial-up or highspeed, or mention other sites. I have found a number of sites hard to access in the last couple of days, particularly those based on java technology.

The Gather people like to know any specifics you can give (time of day, etc) to help them debug this -- keep a journal if you can and let them know. It will help all of us.

Good luck!

Oh I'm on Broadband........

I have high speed and I had issues Sunday and Monday with Gather. It took forever to publish images.

I don't appear to have any trouble with Gather tonight. But I haven't been on much either. Hope it gets better for you.

It had happen all weekend at the hotel..that's why I trying to catch up now

it's been slow on gather

I havent had any problems today Trudy.

I am SO EXCITED to see you post this question! I have had a terrible time myself. Gather is VERY SLOW. Sometimes I post a comment and then go to X out the page and it shuts everything down.

It's been terribly slow at times the past couple of days. Forget about going to a group that only has pictures, because it takes forever. I have cable internet service and am use to having a page load in a few seconds, not 1/2 minute or longer or not at all. You are not the only one! Last night was awful, I finally gave up and went to bed.

It's been running ok for me for the most part and my desktop PC is a few years old. Every once and awhile it gets sluggish, but for the most part it's been fine.

Its been slow for me all night as well.

I think it's a conspiracy.

Yup Ron, I think you're right! LOL

Gather is flying for me, also.

Try cleaning out your' files.

Go to 'Start'...followed by 'All Programs'...next, to 'Accessories...to System Tools...select 'Disk Clean-up'...when he 'Select Disk' window turns up...click 'Yes'...when the 'Disk Clean-up' window pops up...select 'Yes'.

or,

Go to your' 'Tool Bar'...click on 'Tool'...than 'Internet Options'...when the windoe comes up click on 'Settings'...another window will open...click on 'View Files'...a page will open...go to your' 'Tool Bar'...click on 'Edit'...than click 'Select All'...go to 'File' on the tool bar and select 'Delete'.

I too had noticed same problem when Gather introduced Video and I worte to them (See the support replay below). But now I don't face that problem with Gather.

Since you said you are using Broadband, I think the problem might be with your computer. How big is its RAM and what is the processor (CPU) speed.
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From: Support [mailto:support@gatherinc.com]
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 9:46 PM
To: Xavier Mathew Neduveli
Subject: RE: Video sharing in Gather

Xavier,

Thank you very much for reporting this, and I'm sorry for this much-delayed response. I wanted to note that in the aftermath of the latest site upgrade (when we released video capability), there was a relatively high rate of site instability, which resulted in latency and slowness. If you don't mind, could you give me an update on how the site is performing for you these days in general? Has the slowness improved over the past month?

Best,

Chuck McGuire
Gather.com Member Services

Trudy, mine too has been much slower since this last upgrade. My husband has just been doing some updating, debugging and so forth on my computer, but I do not believe it has helped. I think? I counted around ten of these comments experiencing this issue. so maybe it is gather. (Mine is also Highspeed)

Gather

Could be both.

Something is going on. I thought it was IE.

We get so much Gather mail, it would naturally take longer to load than it did in our pre-Gather days.

Be sure to do Disc Clean-up daily and Defragment when your computer tells you that you need it. You'll gain some spead there.

You can check with your server and have them evaluate if you have a browser problem, which they will help you reset to get better service if needed.

Slow isn't the word for it!
I am still on dial up so I always figure that is the speed problem.
Some day I will will say good bye to dial up and move on up to some speed.

things have been slower for me