Just got a glimpse of what you've all been talking about...

Hitched is very, very, very, very slow for me, which is why I can't be bothered to post as much as I used to, which is a shame ☹️

It's been like this for months.

For me it seems to get worse in the evening. I find that at about 9 or 10pm it just grinds to a halt completely, and I often have to give up and go and do something else instead ?

Very slow for me too, sometimes I'm sure it is my internet/laptop but for the most part it must be hitched because every other website loads quickly.

Extremely slow for me too. If I'm in the mood to Hitch and am prepared to wait, I'll go to other sites or reply to emails while I'm waiting for the page to refresh. If not, I don't bother. Which is becoming more the case, sadly.

This thread should be brought to Darren's attention, although I'm sure he is aware of the issue

I'm not a prolific poster and find I'm posting even less now simply because the pages take so long to open. It took me ages just to load Hitched this morning, then it kept freezing on me so I had to close my window and open another session.

It's incredibly frustrating and more often than not I shut down the frozen window and can't be bothered to try again.

It is particularly bad at the moment due to two major undersea network cables being out of service(due to the typhoon) . Because of this, Internet Service Providers across the globe are experiencing congestion on their network causing slow responses. ?

I don't think that can be it NightOwl. It's only Hitched that's a problem. Every other site I use (which includes two other forums) is working fine.

The last few days my PC here at work, and at home, has been slow as a snail sporadically. It has been a pain in the arse!

I agree though, Hitched is slowest of them all! ?

I didn't really have a problem with hitched when it was mentioned how slow it was a while ago, but very recently it seems to have got slower and slower (almost to a halt) so much so that i have to close the hitched page and open the website again. it's getting very frustrating.

It seems to be particularly bad today

It has been really slow today. I've lost a couple of replies due to it taking aaaaages to load pages up.

I have a fast broadband connection and find Hitched frustratingly slow. I end up opening three or four threads at a time, but even then give up after a while as it's so slow.

It's horrendous for me. I've really noticed it over the past few days but it's never been the same since we lost the old yellow Hitched. I generally give up around 9pm as well. It's just beyond frustrating.

Tonight it is agony

'New' Hitched has mainly been fine for me, but the last week has been very very slow, to the extent that I generally give up.

I've just signed up to another forum so i've something else to read and post on that doesn't crash or time out...

I only have half a meg of broadband, so everything's slow for me - I don't notice Hitched being slower than anything else. There is a post on the Feedback forum about the speed, but they either can't or won't do anything about it seemingly. I still love Hitched and I'd be really sad to see people go because of its snail-like pace.

Yes, I've found it frustratingly slow recently, this past week particularly.

I just don't have the time now to have a 'quick' look at what's going on.

I find myself opening up new pages and running HItched in parallel. There's no problem with other websites. I can read and click through to four pages say on the BBC website in the time it takes Hitched to open one.

Hitched has always been horrendously slow for me since the relaunch, even on the works network which is pretty speedy at most things. I seldom hitch at home as I've only got a bogstandard BT landline connection and a single page from this site can take weeks (it's feel that long) to load.

I hate the typesize here too, which I am sure contravenes all the accesibility guidelines that many good websites these days follow. It' s so small!

HITCHED ARE YOU READING THIS?

That's because you haven't upgraded IE. It's tiny on my work laptop, which is still running IE6 I think, but on my own laptop in IE8 it's fine.

It's sporadically slow for me, but what I am finding more and more is I get an error message when posting, and then find my post has appeared anyway

WSS.

There might be something in the congestion theory: I'm also having problems with Facebook. I suspect the effects are mainly going to be seen on sites which have very heavy traffic: this would definitely apply to hitched.