Overcrowding on some times of the day. In the morning (European morning that is) it's fairly easy to get on, once America is awake it's a different thing.

I'm not having trouble getting on, but it's slow sometimes. But it's so nice here that I don't mind that.

I got kicked off twice yesterday! Almost had withdrawls! LOL
Nice to see you back!
Hugs Dawn

Maybe the site is soo slow because more and more people use animated avatars? lol (Even nice femals who write a lot ;o)
Not sure but I heard that this animated gifs need some capacity. In my old company they were forbidden (but that is years ago).
Like mops I have the advantage that I had a time-jump to America :-) I think most traffic is when the freebies change...
Greetings, Bettina

Terre, I think it's because there are so many more cuties and with all the downloads in projects it's just slowing up the system. Giving flowers or going back a page takes forever. I don't come on as often as I use to. Take care. Carol

I experienced, too, that in the European morning, when the American (usually) still sleep, it is far more easy to read and download. For me its almost 9 o'clock p.m. now and I had several "time-outs" when I tried to load the freebies' pages.

It's expensive for Miss Veronika to keep up with all of us here on Cuties. It takes lots of bandwidth and extra bandwidth is costly. The large animated gifs shouldn't be bad unless there is a lot of large moving parts. Most just have small moving parts. We need to remember to purchase lots from the Cuties sites to help keep the Cuties sites up and running!