Well since more and more keep adding to poll ideas, a good place to add suggestions is the Opinion Polls discussion board

Since they can easily get buried here - I know for public polls, when I'm ready to make a new poll I always do a quick search through that board to see what pop's out at me.

I don't often use polls, but if they are something that might help the site, I probably would.

Poll 1: What browser do you use for Brainking (IE, Firefox, Safari, opera, other)

Poll 2: What performance do you see from Brainking (very fast, fast, medium, slow, very slow, unusable)

LionsLair: and just to jump in ahead of Bernice:
Add also the counter question (worst, feature, worst game)

I got an idea for an opinion poll but I know i would leave some info out as an answer option and thought I would throw it out there for someone that is more in tune with the answers.

1.) what is the best 'new feature' applied to BK in the last year?
i.e. opinion polls, multi sign up for ponds, hide oponents turn to move, etc,etc,etc.....

what is the best new game added to BK in the last year?

anyone want to run with it....feel free...

I downloaded Safari and have Firefox.. very little difference on my puter between the two regarding speed.. as for the add ons.. I just use it plain since I still use IE for my other web browsing.. I have it set for IE as the default browser.. 

Rose: thanks for this tip

(it might explain why i have no problems, i am using IE at work and an older version of Firefox at home with very little addons)

Bernice: I have used Safari before, and still have it on here

I have just been comparing them in fact, and Safari is faster at loading games pages, but very little to choose any any other pages i tried.

Apart from the speed reason, like coan.net and others, i love the huge amount of Add-ons available for Firefox. I have everything i need all on one page from resizing text areas to all my email

The only reason i can think off the top of my head that people find Firefox slow is they do not have enough memory for it. It has always been notorious for eating memory up, though the new version is not meant to be as bad as previous one.

I have 30 Add-ons(though only 27 running at the moment), i have no speed problem, so i will be sticking with it

I a playing a game of Cloning backgammon, and autopass is enabled, but it isnt working during this game, does anybody know why?

I'm very interested in this topic, but would love to see it continued over on the Computer Discussion Board.... in which it might help others also.

http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=52 - please check it out, would love to talk more about the topic over there.

Snoopy: Ya i don't get why its so fast.. maybe its the lack of add ons. FF has sooo many scripts, add ons etc.. Maybe thats why its sooo darn laggy lately.
All I know is safari is simple, basic, not pretty but WOW she's fast!

Rose: I know that Mad Monkey is a firefox fan, and I wonder what he would think of Safari....my god it is unbelievably fast...I cant get over it....Firefox is certainly dead here for good...tried it and dint like it and went back to IE, but it is Safari now for me..........

Bernice: Unreal how fast the site is using safari. Pretty weird since being told that this is a firefox preferred site. I don't get it. Using any version of firefox just took ages to get through one single turn.. Ive been down to 40 games for months due to not being able to play many games .... unreal

my god..........what a difference Safari...thanks Rose......have just whizzed thru everything..........WOW...I recommend that

Bernice: Ya it was to the point that I was ready to stop playing due to the slow speed. Today is the first day in weeks that i can literally zip thru my turns. Unbelievable. I think the last firefox update was when everything started to lag for me.. I even got the latest beta 5 and still slow as molasses in January. This safari has actually made a huge improvement in playing.

Rose: thanks Rose....might have to do that....it is beyond a joke isn't it.

Bernice try safari.. I installed it today after getting the latest firefox beta 5 which was slower than my old firefox. I can actually play my games in a reasonable time now. Can't hurt to try it. Go to apple.com and download it.

Bernice: what if there is no solution to speed up your connection ?

speed lasted about 10 minutes....back to the "all day wait" bit....I wish someone would admit to problems and stop trying to fob people off with fancy talk of "yew bewt" servers etc....that are going to improve the USA connection....crap...there is a problem and it is all over.......admit to it, and lets get on with it.................
I'm ( along with a lot of others) are sick of the excuses and blame.

FGS fix it and lets all play on.

but will admit to about 5 secs at the moment

dare I say it.............4 minutes 22 secs to load......with the message
"waiting for "http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=1"

alanback:
Nope.. I noticed the speed issue on this site right after Fencer admitted to downloading Firefox a week or more ago..

It's
amazing how much faster my pages load once I updated to the trial
version. Others noticed a change in speed at the same time. Not
sure if Firefox is the one really at fault. It may not be compatible
with other browsers.. Would that be the first time a program didn't
want to run with another similar one.. No.. Aim (AOL Messenger) had
issues with both Yahoo and MSN. Even virus programs don't mix with
other virus programs. And I am sure if I dug around I could find more
examples.

ScarletRose:  If your machine gets faster every time you install a new browser, could the degradation in speed be an issue with your cache settings?

I upgraded to the trial version of the new firefox last night.. and it got very fast again.. So it seems that there is Some Biasness towards IE and perhaps other browsers when using Firefox.. I will also warn since it happened to me. Make sure you restart your puter afterwards. If you still prefer using IE for other sites make sure to keep IE as your default browser.. Firefox tries to be number one there.. last night I couldn't use IE to play on Pogo. This morning it has been corrected but, that is due to my puter restarting.

Snoopy:Firefox Trial programme, that is what it says here

Doris:It was happening alot to me too, but thn i added the firefox trial and havent had a problem since, the only problem i have now, is Dice poker, where in some cases, it is only allowing me to roll once and not tiwce.

Adaptable Ali: Yes Ali, It happens too often.

Super Dooper fast for me since i added the firefox trial programme

alanback: you are right i should not have replied to it .. i am a weak human sometimes as well :)

i wont go into this subject any further on this board .. if anyone wants to discuss/chat/..anything.. about it .. please tell me where and i will be there

lets have fun and enjoy our time on here

"GERRY":  Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm just playin' around!

Ah KIDS lets have peace not WAR::)))

alanback: another case of "do as I say, not as I do" LOL
happens a lot on this site :)

Hrqls: Hm ... if her answer was not suitable for this board, why was yours? ;-)

Hrqls: i have broadband...this site is slow.

With regards the post below......surely you could have seen I was being facetious.

either delete the posts or leave them, I dont care, but dont fill my PM with rubbish.

Bernice: why answer me on here and not in a pm ?
i asked you in a pm because i was waondering why you asked your question : was it because you wanted to let the people know you were having troubles with your connection ? (thats not what you wrote) or was it because you thought (or hoped) that the message about the slow speed would be deleted (which it wasnt and wont) ..

i asked it to you in a pm because that wasnt a subject for this board (as it was about you and not about brainking)

do you have a slow connection yourself ?

i rarely do .. but most of the times dont .. dont know what is causing me to have a fast connection though

maybe a poll should be held asking people wether their connection is fast or slow ?

but please post your comments on the subject you want them to be about and aimed on something else

when you want to answer on that part .. you know how you can send me a pm

ScarletRose: I was being sarcastic

Roberto Silva: Ummm maybe not BK's fault.. but, one could guess the upgrades could have some hidden bugs..

I upgraded to Mozilla several months ago since that is Fencers preferred.. and obvious outcome has been recorded.. I can still go back to IE and it is sluggish.. but, as of last week it is no fun to play my turns.. the pages slug to load and if I am lucky I won't be taken to a time out page.. That was almost right after Fencers admittance to upgrades of Mozilla.. and if he didn't upgrade Moz.. maybe he altered some nips for the recent frills of his site..

Roberto Silva: well like i said works fine for me

Jason: Well that settles it then. If it works fine for one person, then it's definitely not Brainking's fault...

works fine for me at home and at work , ;)

Please stop PM me and asking stupid questions as to why I post my questions or comments....

I would have thought it was obvious....Im one of the dissatisfied customers who cant get the GREAT service that the Dutch, Czech etc get.....wake up to yourself and listen to the birds chirping.....us birdies arent happy....our money is running dry....who is going to lose....not the minions...we can play 20 games without fear...who needs to pay for a site that cant deliver on its promises....not the majority it seems :)

Have a nice day :)

Adaptable Ali: regularly

I have quite a few Triple Dice Poker games, going at the moment, and the last couple of turns i have taken it has only allowed me to take one roll. Has this happened to anybody else?

ScarletRose: There are no bugs, there is nothing to fix, if it is slow it is our fault not the site or where the site is. Havent you been reading any of the messages? Its all in our minds that it is soo slow and laggy for us and that we cant get pages to load. Has nothing what so ever to do with the website or that every other site we go to works fine. NOOO it's our fault and our fault alone. Please read the past messages to learn that.  

ScarletRose: OOPS....are you allowed to say that?

I wish I could but I'm afraid to be asked to leave again before my membership runs out HAHAHAHAHA

When are the bugs or whatever going to be worked out again?? This is ridiculous.. I even have gotten used to Firefox.. but, anymore it is so sluggish here.. 

Interesting, I decided to "View Source" on the "DoBoardPost" page...here is what I got:
[html]
[head]
[title][/title]
[/head]
[body bgcolor="#ffffff"]
[/body]
[/html]

Note...I formated it to make it more readable and I replaced "<>" with "[]"" with "[]"

coan.net: Yes, there is another computer I can use (at work). It gives the same problem...

Other pages that redirect work fine. I'm at a loss. I would say it's the firewall at work, but the other brainking pages load fine.

coan.net: I find nothing better fun than

"giving the browner the re-direct"

Summertop: If there is another computer at your work, can you try that?

Why I say that is that it will narrow down if the problem is with your network (problem with all computers at work), or just your computer (if it works with other computers at work)

Other then that - I'm not sure. Sounds like it does what you want (like a post), but when the page then gives the browner the re-direct to another page - it stops there. My obvious question would be if there was any thing new loaded on the PC.

Well, more on the Blank Pages (DoLogin, DoMove, DoBoardPost)....
When I tried this at home, there was no issue. At work there still is...

I don't think the firewall is the culprit because all the other pages work fine. Even the Doxxxx pages work mostly, just don't redirect.

Host-tracker.com showed no problems.

I haven't seen this issue with any other web site.

Any other suggestions?