Road.cc goes 90's dial up internet

Yep, all of the above. I used to navigate round the site using the 'recent posts' sidebar, so that one is frustrating. It is unusual for a site that generates enough traffic that it retains proper paid staff, to performs quite as slowly as this one often does.

I agree road.cc is v slow even on a good day. Is it running on a Pentium 4? Yes I have noticed the style sheets not loading quite a lot recently v annoying.

Mentioned this before but there's also a massive difference in the load time of pages on the site depending on whether you're logged in and logged out

Logged out it's between 0.2-0.4 seconds. Logged in it's between 2 and 4 seconds.

Very annoying

still no fixie...

yes, all of the above.

Yep, I get it too - the stylesheets don't load. Refreshing, clearing cache etc don't seem to fix it. I just give up now and go somewhere else, then try again in a couple of hours and it usually works.

And yes, now the latest comments/forum sidebars only appear on the homepage which is also frustrating. They've probably done it for technical reasons as the site is slow and buggy but its a terrible UX design decision.

same problem here - particularly on safari on my iPhone.

@Otis I've noticed that. I think it's intentional, but I don't like it

I thought it was only me having those issues due to a crappy laptop and even crappier broadband- that's a relief at least.

Now again is it just me or are the "Latest Comments" and "On the Forum" sidebars only appearing on the home page and not when you go to an article page?

Not the only one, happens quite a bit here too - almost like the style sheet has gone AWOL. Slow page access appears to be making a bit of a re-appearance too... i'd love to know what the architecture is, love road.cc dearly but the i'm struggling to think of another site I frequent that is so consistently un-responsive.

Yeah a number of people have been having this problem, it has been noted and I believe has been dealt with or at least is being fixed