I'm having quite severe problems connecting to chess.com right now, each pageload takes about 1-2 minutes (just posting this cost over 5 minutes)... Anyone els having this problem?

I am. Its really annoying.

Same here in the UK and with my playing friends over the pond.  The hidden benefit is that I take more time over my moves! 

I have same problem.Usually I don't have problems with connection but today I really need a wait a very long to pageload.I again knock today my computer many times but this time he really didn't deserve.

Looks like now is everything fine again.How about you?

Everyone needs to remember that this is a beta site and sometimes things just dont work properly. Oh, and Im having problems too.

Cloyescapade, this isn't a beta site, the live chess area is just in beta. And yes, things seem to be better now...

Same problem here, but it's better now.

Actually, I'm intermittently unable to access the site. Is the server experiencing downtime? Or is it just me?

Probably they are working now on it.Don't worry.Be patient.Soon will be everything ok.

when I play live chess, I only get 1/3 of the board...very discouraging

 

Chiefster how you mean 1/3 in live chess? You mean on size of the board? You can modify it in live chess in  window "Control  Panel" click on settings there,and you will find "Board Size" you have 3 options. 1.default-you currently use  2.medium  3.large

sorry guys - there were problems this morning for about 30 minutes due to our backup database server going nutzo :)

Poor my computer.How many times he deserved that what I am doing to him.Maybe 1 or 2 times but I always blame him.

lol,just kidding

And now it's back again

yeah - getting the same problems here as well - taking a long time (several minutes) to load a page

You should get a Stratus fault-tolerant server... they have five 9's of uptime.

It's really slow for me, too. I'm on cable so there's no reason it should be sooo sloooww. My local time zone is Arizona, so right now I'm basically on PDT. It's 6 am local time, so unless it's really busy it shouldn't be this sluggish.

Adding insult to injury I'm intermittently getting that IE glitch where no text will appear in the text box when I'm trying to type. I have to hit F5 3 or 4 times to get it to work properly.

Please fix these issues as soon as you can. They're EXTREMELY annoying.

It is so slow now, I am really not sure if I want to pay to be on chess.com. Does it slow down often?