Are you having problems viewing this blog?

About ten days ago I became aware that some people were having difficulty viewing TYWKIWDBI. The problem seemed to arise from the fact that I had the blog set up to show 100 posts (about 1 week of new material) on the home page. On May 3 I changed the format to limit the home page to 50 posts, and received a couple comments that things had improved.

This morning another visitor left a message indicating that trying to view the blog was difficult, and that it seemed to have gotten worse (?) in recent weeks. Normally I wouldn't be too concerned re one visitor, ascribing it to idiosyncracies of that person's system, but earlier this week I received an email from someone who, in a burst of enthusiasm, had looked at the entire blog (!), scrolling all the way back through TYWKIWDBI to the very beginning. In doing so, he/she encountered a link (in a post a full year ago) that went to a pornsite. I think the link must have changed since the original hyperlink was set up, but it's also possible that someone had hacked this site and inserted the hyperlink de novo.

The blog is currently set up with the most recent 50 posts on the front page. When I looked through them today, 12 were videos (11 YouTubes and 1 CNN), which apparently require a bit of processor memory to "preload" when the page is opened. I should think most systems and browsers would handle that load, but perhaps it's best to check.

Please use the comment function of this post to let me know 1) if you are having problems, and of what type and 2) if you have seen any bad/inappropriate links (other than YouTube videos which sometimes go dead). If this site is still slow to load or troublesome for a number of people, I can cut the frontpage posts down even further and let people navigate to subsequent pages.

Thanks in advance.

Stan