Lately I've been experiencing a lot problems accessing the forum - it takes an absolute age for pages to load, if they even do at all, and photos don't upload properly etc. However, just now after succesfully uploading a photo, I clicked the link to go to "My Gallery". It took about ten minutes for the page to load (whilst it was doing so I was browsing other web pages), and when I came back to check it's progress, there was a section saying nothing has been uploaded here - why not be the first to add something, a few other things under that which I skimmed over and forgot due to the nature of the next bit, and then below all of that it said "Gallery 10mg Viagra no files" or something like that..........what on earth is going on here??? I clicked to go to My Gallery again after that to see if it did this again but it actually took me to My Gallery this time, with no problems.
I'm really quite concerned.
Hi Anna
Sounds like you have a virus spammer in your works to me.
Have you checked for virsuses recently
Might be the fact you have a virus
Regards
Kathy and Dave
Definitely sounds like you have a virus embedded in your system.
Time for a system scan.
I experienced a few weird problems yesterday as well. I included a picture in a post which appeared to have been uploaded successfully but then was missing from the post. Then later it appeared without me doing anything. Like you sometimes it takes ages for a page to load.
I know mine isn't a virus problem because I run a virus checker regularly. I suspect, although I don't really know, that the servers just get overloaded from time to time.
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Tony
My Flickr Photostream
Hi Annabanana,
I think TJ is right. The Gallery is often slow to download, also moving from one gallery to another. Also in the forums some photos don't download properly and have to be done again. It is always worthwhile running a virus check - my anti virus programme runs checks automatically every day and I know my machine is "clean", but I occasionally have the same problem as you. It also could be something to do with your broadband connection, which maybe throwing a wobbler as they do sometimes.
Cheers, Linda.
See my photos on Flickr
I do a full virus scan on my laptop every single day and it isn't showing anything untoward on my machine - I did an extra one yesterday after that very strange page showed up and it still doesn't detect anything. I felt it seemed more like this website had been hacked or something rather than it being a virus on my computer, with there being a page like I saw. But if nobody else has seen it then I suppose not.
Very very strange.....
I'm having the same problem. It can take up to 5 minutes to load pages, very frustrating!
I sometimes find it slow, especially the galleries, but other times it is working fine.
Millie & Fly the Border Collies
I have the same problem, it's painfully slow to load. I uploaded 2 photos a while ago but haven't been able to upload anything since - yet I can upload to Flickr with no trouble. Are there any instructions to upload (in case I'm doing it wrong) and to put a photo by my name please? I've been unable to find any. Thanks.
Hi Feathers,
The photo by your name is called an Avatar. If you go to your personal profile page, click on edit, you will see where you can add or change your avatar. Hope this helps, and looking forward to seeing your avatar!
Thanks very much Sparrow! I want to upload more photos before choosing my Avatar which I appear to be unable to do. Are there instructions anywhere please as nothing is uploading?