Thanks yet again for the comments from those in the industry.
I think all on the forum should have divined 2 or 3 things from the foregoing. We absolutely recognise the problems you're facing using the site, we are working on a radical overhaul and we have raised the funds now to actively improve things.
Additionally we are seriously looking at moving to this alternative way of hosting the site after all the advice we've received here, on the rotorheads forum and privately. As Danny's comments made clear we want to run PPRuNe for aviation people and we've been draggged kicking and screaming into doing it on a legal and commercial footing. We funded it with our after tax income from the day jobs for years but as you've now read we are simply too big for that due to demand.
Bear in mind we've never advertised or issued a press release in the 8 years of running the site Therefore the word demand is both absolutely accurate and the curse we suffer
But now to the real reason for writing which has been triggered by the suggestions from Circuit Basher. What can we offer short term to alleviate the poor service?
I follow this forum very carefully simply because I'm a light aircraft man at heart. The Boeing supports my family, apart from me and the missus the oldest member of which is a Jodel
I haven't seen the simplest suggestion of all which is to use a different internet browser. This can transform your viewing of the site, especially at peak times.
The majority of you use Internet Explorer and it doesn't support a feature called tabbed browsing. By switching to another, they're all free, you can have multiple pages loading while you're reading one thread. Finish what you are reading and select the next page you want. While that loads you click on the next tab and you've got a loaded page ready to read. Repeat across the site on different tabs until replete with your aviation fix.
This prescription for PPRuNE addicts is especially effective for those of you on dial up access or as we doctors refer to it. Lumbered by BTitis.
We work very hard to ensure that PPRuNe renders acceptably on any stable browser on all platforms - PC, Mac or unix. Therefore I'll bow out and ask our readers to suggest tabbed browsers for you to download or liberate from computer mag cover disks without any bias from us in the Towers. It really, really, really is worth it especially if you are on dial up.
Come on team - chip in with your recommendations for improving peoples' experience of the site while we crack on with world domination - err, getting the forums sorted
Regards again,
Rob Lloyd