I moved to central IL on Oct.3rd and have used my mothers Dell/Vista/DSL rig for keeping in touch.(Mine is in storage).Using IE7 I have yet to experience any freezes of the site and loading the home page has been rapid in most cases.Browsing the forums and galleries has it's usual highs and lows in speed however.

On the plus side,I have had no ads when logged on,so I think things are getting better. That or I'm not online long enough.  

Ive never understood why WC, compared to most sites I visit is so slow, sure some days it whizzes along, but they are few and far between, over the past year or so it seems to me that download counts are down, comments are down, forums are pretty slow etc.. I would have to blame a god portion of that on site unreliability. Its also been raised by others to me....often.

Maybe I think irrationally but it would seem to me that getting the sites running like most other sites, fast, reliable etc is the most basic of needs to maintain a succesful web presence, It literally blows my mind that here I am, I dunno, 3-4 years later experiencing the same issues as I did when I first arrived. I dont think a day goes by that I'm not tapping my mouse in an aggravated fashion as I wait for pages to load.

I typically am on a clean'ish install, no toolbars, blockers, etc.. and its the same in all browsers.

I love it here but I find myself visiting, like some others, less and less.

Sidenote...the OP said 'almost crash'

I think it's just system load.....when I come on in the morning usually around 6:45am eastern things fly along fine but somewhere between 7 and 8 things start to balk.......I can click on a forum link and wait, wait, wait and then stop it, click again and woosh there it is. It usually happens several times a day. I get the same kind of response at DA and many of the news sites certain times during the day. I don't necessarily see it at ALL other sites but few others have the traffic Wincustomize does.

I've used IE, FF & Opera here and I can't remember a crash I could blame on the site.

Funny thing is that I'm not compaining about slowness. It's the browser freeze for couple of minutes that I'm complaining about.

I have got to admit that i only froze up once today

and the speed has gone up nicely

Well, as you can see we have 60 replies...  I am in hope that this is getting noticed.  Deviantart is by far bigger than this and Deviantart.com has a traffic rank of:  112 while Wincustomize.com has a traffic rank of:  5,045, and I never have an issue with that site.  Like many others, i love coming here and being apart of this community.  My member number tells you alone how long i have been here.  I am just concerned and would like to see it fixed.

I never wait for the main page to load fully. I press stop as soon as I get the log in box. As a subscriber, I don't get the ads when logged in, so that helps the speed

There is nothing more I can add here. You guys said it all. I concurr and experience the same issue as Night Train.

That would be fine except for the fact that it happens with all browsers, not just IE. I have the same issues using FF.

It is unfortunate that there is no response from the powers that be other than the short one from ID.  Unfortunately there was never a peep about the server transition being finished or not finished after the announcement that it would begin last Monday. As noted, this has been going on for a LOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGGGG time.

It's happened to me twice this afternoon, having to shutdown in task manager....and that's a first for me...also ridiculously slow tonight....(IE6)...

site has been up and down for a long while now....but this is unusually severe...something afoot....

I was wondering about ads... I don't get much freezes so far but same time I'm a subscriber for this site.

For this site and ONLY this site? I somehow doubt it...

Yeah. Seems that whatever problem it was are gone. I haven't had a freeze for couple of days so far.