Intense Debate just slowed down to a crawl...

I'm glad to know someone else has this problem makes visiting blogs with the ID system installed a royal PITA! Had to deactivate the software on my blog as it makes it almost impossible to use right now.

Luckily my blog is very new so it is not having that much of an affect, but... I hope it doesn't happen often. It seems to be faster now, and the comments are now loading, but it is still slow...

Lol, my blog is very new as well (at least in this iteration)...I'm just working on some development/design with it and not be able to test because it just keeps loading sort of sucks

Seems to be messed up again. I'm really going to have to remove this system if this continues - haven't had comments in 48 hours. i wouldn't mind so much if there was some easy way to flick back to my old wordpress comments system.

I am having this same problem, it makes loading my blog's main page almost impossible. I just send everyone my RSS link instead.

I think the way to fix this (not that the end user can just do it if you use something like the wordpress plugin) is to make the scripts load LAST on the page.

You solve the exact same problem with a twitter bar on a blog by putting the HTML code where you want it, and then executing the scripts after the last line in your footer. This causes the entire website to load, and THEN the twitter bar. If we could do this with intensedebate it would not cause a problem with anything. (Usually people read at least 5 seconds of a post/article before wanting to post a comment anyway, so it would be okay for comments to load last.)

instead, IntenseDebate (for me) loads before my right navigation bar, which means you can't get to any other pages until the comments are finished loading (which often takes FOREVER.)

lets just hope the IntenseDebate team can fix this soon so nobody stops using it!

-aliencam

btw it looks like the same problem is happening here:
http://getsatisfaction.com/intensedeb...

I am using FF3 and Wordpress 2.5.1 and the plugin. my blog URL is http://blog.aliencam.net

I have the same problem aliencam. I'm luckier in the sense that IDC only loads after the main content is finished but it still delays the correct displaying of the sidebars.

The problem is that the comment counts are quering the IDC database each time to check how many comments each posts have. On a blog's main page where the most recent 10 posts exist, it needs to query 10 times. Add to that the IDC widgets, and the time inrceases even more.

The best thing to do would be to allow somehow the IDC scripts to load last in the page. If that's not an option, then the DB speeds need to be improved.