Internet Brands - You are losing us
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Internet Brands - You are losing us
- OffshoreOnly is now officially the slowest-runnning boating web site that I visit. Between the Google ads, flashing graphics, and general parasitic BS, every page takes forever to load or update.
- ...IF the page loads successfully at all. More and more, things simply come to a halt partway through the process.
- The page width comes out screwed up more and more often.
- The "Last Post" column is completely unreliable. It often refers to posts that are days or weeks old. Even worse, it's accuracy is totally random; you can never tell when it works and when it doesn't.
For almost 10 years, OSO has been virtually the only boating web site that I spent time on. In the last 2 months, I have found myself spending more and more time on other sites that I neve thought I would sign up for, simply because I don't have to spend my time waiting for those sites to do what they should - perform.
In the last month, I have joined both ScreamAndFly.com and BoatFreaks.org, and tripled my post count on Speedwake.com.
Do as you see fit. So will I.
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Last edited by C_Spray; 09-12-2008 at 07:50 AM.
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Nice post.
Ditto here too.
Ditto here too.
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BillR
'00 Scarab Sport 302 CC
'02 Cigarette Top Gun TS
'02 PQ 340
'00 PQ 280
'98 Scarab 22
'97 Baja Outlaw 20
'72 Checkmate
'65 Glastron
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I use OSO with multiple ISPs and have not experienced any problems with OSO since the server merge awhile ago. Site has been hella reliable for me.
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Kinda reminds you of the Comcast commercials with the "slowensky's" turtles complaining about hi-speed internet....
Things have been a little better for me the last couple weeks, but I never seem to go a full month without server issues!!!! Now I too spend more time on other sites than I used to.
Things have been a little better for me the last couple weeks, but I never seem to go a full month without server issues!!!! Now I too spend more time on other sites than I used to.
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My speed is usually pretty good. I still get the database error from time to time. While speed tends to be pretty good, it's probably still slower than other pages.