It is becoming increasingly difficult for me to participate on this forum. The 25 topic limit is a huge issue because I am not a regular but I also notice the CPU usage shooting up to 80% plus when starting Fodors in IE. My iPhone also slows down.

Anyone else notice the same?

I've really noticed slow response times in this forum for the last two days.

I may have found the issue that started a day ago I think. Now either IE or my viruscheckers are going nuts:

Webpage error details

Message: Object expected
Line: 94
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://www.fodors.com/js/checkrates-widget.js

Can you try browser Firefox?
Many people prefer Firefox. It is free and easy to download and use.

regards - tom

The new re-write of the forum wasn't an improvement, for sure. There are some great off the shelf software solutions for online forums.

Yeah, getting away from "frames" was supposed to be better. Better for who?

regards - tom

I use Firefox. The delays here on Fodor's started yesterday or the day before.

Fodor's is just slow today whether on IE, Firefox or thru AOL. Happens on occasion. This too shall pass!

slowness is one thing, but bad functionality is another. It is 2009, and the forum reeks of 1995.

Ok, I will stop my griping.

Let me gripe a little more ...

The 25 topic limit is a real pain, especially since the search function doesn't work. You can't even find the threads you are participating in.

Yeah, "search", seems to still have problems.

regards - tom

<<<You can't even find the threads you are participating in.>>>

Yes, you can. Just click on your own name and the posts you started and posts you commented on will come up.

<<<The 25 topic limit is a real pain>>>

Instead of looking at the list on the left, just immediately click on "View all activity" -- you'll at least get all activity for the day, then if you want to, you can go back further by date. Admittedly, this works better for the US and Europe forums where the number of daily threads is way more than 25.

Just wanted to pop in and let you know that we're investigating the slowness; I realize it's very annoying and I apologize. Hopefully we will have it fixed shortly.

SF7307, I know how to use the search function; what I said is, it doesn't work! When I search for my posts, I get somebody else's.

I also know how to View All Activity; I just think it's not as satisfying or useful as seeing 50 posts was.

Thanks, Katie.

TWo days ago I searched six-ways-from-Sunday trying to find a topic I started a few months ago, spent probably 20 minutes trying 5 different ways and never found it.

If someone can direct me to it and show me how, thanks. It as about airport lounges in the Frankfurt airport. Forum? I searched several. I will be there in two days.

regards - tom

We believe that the slowness may have been due to a particular ad, which has now been pulled. If you experience an improvement in speed (or not) please let us know.

Tom--will post on your other search question in one moment.

Celia--are you trying to enter your name in the search box? The search cannot search posters names. In order to search your posts you'd need to use the advanced search and enter "Celia" where it says Member name.

Tom--I'm stumped too; I didn't find it using search. The only airport related question I saw that you started I found in your profile by looking at your topics--it was about the airport in Amsterdam. If it's not in your topic list, it's not on the site. I can direct your query to our database manager to see why it would no longer be on the site; I don't seen any reason why it would have been removed.

Tom, ask your question again. I'll be there in a couple of weeks myself.

Is this it Tom?

http://www.fodors.com/community/afri...-on-strike.cfm

I searched using Frankfurt and FRA and neither worked but I remembered I had commented on it but it took me looking through pages and pages of threads I'd commented on to find it