I've found LJ appallingly slow for the last 4 or 5 days too.

It's a mare, isn't it? Ugh.

Apparently they were having some issues at the end of last week, and I found it very low. Definitely better over the weekend for me.

If you friend status apparently the service updates will appear in your friends list as they happen.

Thanks! It is a little better this morning but still fairly excruciating.

Been seeing this at home (via a Virginmedia connection) but it's okay from work. FWIW the "safe mode" you describe sounds like the stylesheets just aren't loading in for you.

Yes, definitely having speed issues and have had for the past few days. People on my flist have also been having problems.

Dunno if it's an LJ issue per se: we've been having DNS issues due to (allegedly) a damaged cable between London and Leeds - almost everything has been intermittent to some degree or other.

Hmm, but I've had no problems with anything other than LJ. It's a mystery!

Yep. It's been really bad the last few days. I sent in a support request over the weekend but haven't heard anything more about it.

No, it's not been a problem for me. Perhaps you all share the same provider and they are having a problem.

I know people with at least three different providers have had the same problem, so I doubt it. Hmm.

It was slow at the weekend while I was visiting my folks, but fine at home...

The only difference was ISP's...

yeah. ridiculously slow, and i have a permanent account which is supposed to be on the fastest lj servers. load of rubbish.

Been awful for me despite having 50 meg internet, so I know it's not me. Almost a week now.

I mentioned in your journal its been a pissy little bitch with me since about friday. I thought it was better today but its really not :/

I can only see it being something with LJ as it is the only site giving me any problems at the moment. Everything else is fine and as quick as ever and loading correctly.

I too keep getting the pages loading (after about 5 minuets when they finally decide to show!) in that weird "safe mode" style that looks like its stuck in the early 90's.

At least if i need to post a journal i can cross post from DW but its frustrating i can't see others journals and comms and such not unless i've got the patience of a saint...which i don't.

That said, ontd is one of the fastest comms to load and i thought that would take about two weeks to do anything :/

God knows whats going on, i just hope they sort it out soon /o\

I've submitted a support request and will ask my other uk friends to do the same if they are getting this level of fail.

It's quite amusing watching Dreamwidth load faster than LiveJournal. Obviously they don't have quite the same scale of viewers to cope with :) but even so, made me smile.

For those experiencing slowness, it would be helpful for us to troubleshoot if you could provide a traceroute - the last several hops will show us what networks it's going through, which could affect speed.

You can do "tracert livejournal.com" and then provide the information after the first few lines, like this:

7 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms cr1.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.133.222]
8 7 ms 6 ms 6 ms ggr6.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.133.193]
9 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms att-gw.chicago.uu.net [192.205.35.182]
10 32 ms 30 ms 30 ms 0.so-6-1-0.XL4.CHI13.ALTER.NET [152.63.73.30]
11 45 ms 46 ms 46 ms 0.so-5-1-0.XL4.DEN4.ALTER.NET [152.63.89.110]
12 46 ms 47 ms 46 ms POS7-0.GW8.DEN4.ALTER.NET [152.63.88.177]
13 59 ms 59 ms 59 ms livejournalinc-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.166.110]
14 59 ms 59 ms 59 ms livejournal.com [208.93.0.128]

Tracing route to livejournal.com over a maximum of 30 hops:

7 154 ms 155 ms 155 ms ash-bb1-link.telia.net [213.248.65.98]
8 154 ms 155 ms 155 ms qwest-119092-ash-bb1.telia.net [213.248.88.178]

9 * * * Request timed out.
10 241 ms 240 ms 240 ms bil-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.8.154]
11 241 ms 240 ms 240 ms bil-edge-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.154.22]
12 337 ms 240 ms 239 ms 65.121.112.210
13 241 ms 239 ms 241 ms livejournal.com [208.93.0.128]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\seven_veils>

It's been dreadfully slow for several days now. I'm on Sky Broadband which is normally a very good connection with excellent speed. Livejournal has been horribly slow to load and going to the comments page of any post has been painfully slow. I hope they fix it soon.

Oh and this is in the Sheffield (South Yorkshire) area.