@gilgamesh

whenever i upload a boxart. it loads forever and ever. do i have to wait for it to stop loading(question mark)

Yes you have to wait till it says the box art is sent.

Another thing the last few games I uploaded the PAL date didn't show up, but if you click "add date" the date I submitted shows up. But it doesn't show up on the main page.

Example: http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=1498

                http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=1499

                http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=5440

SERIOUS PROBLEM.

I've confirmed it only happens when I visit VGChartz. Every time I come to VGChartz now, it screws up my Firefox. I can surf hours upon hours anywhere else, but as soon as I come to VGChartz, within five minutes, Firefox stops working. Completely - it won't load ANY new content at all. And it's permanent - the problem doesn't go away when I close the site, or close Firefox, or reboot the system. I can only fix it by uninstalling Firefox, then reinstalling it.

Additionally, I've noticed the Firefox.exe process doesn't close when I "close" Firefox. It still stays running now, in the background. If I try a CTRL + ALT + DEL, then select Firefox.exe and go to "end process", nothing happens.

Lastly, the site EATS my system memory when I surf here. We're talking easily 100MB of RAM just for coming here. That's outrageous. And it doesn't stop using that much memory when I navigate away. Firefox will use somewhere around 20-45MB regularly, then skyrocket to 115+ once I come here.

The problem doesn't occur with Chrome at all, though. Haven't tried Internet Explorer (nor will I even bother).

My problem is not as bad as tonestarr's but it's still pretty bad. When I have the site up & don't do anything on it, firefox takes up 10-20% of CPU usage.
Once i start scrolling up or down my CPU usage goes up to 99% & starts lagging like crazy.

EDIT:  OK, i just checked the front page.  Even when it's idol, it takes up 90-99% of CPU usage.

I can't see any posts when I enter a thread, and sorry if this has been said before ... but I can't read posts so thats why. Oh I already covered that ...

To be frank, I'm not a fan. I never liked dark backgrounds for Websites, it's too hard on the eyes. The front page seems cluttered and disorganized, not to mention very slow. Maybe I'll get used to it but right now I miss the white background.

Why do people think dark backgrounds are harder on the eyes? For light emitting sources, like computer screens, a dark background is easier on the eyes.

I also have the problem with this website eating a lot of computer resources.  The front page takes about 60%, and regular pages take around 30% of my computer's resources.

Clean start of Firefox loading vgChartz homepage only:

Firefox CPU usage:  72-81%
Firefox Memory Usage:  ~126,000K

Let's try some experiments...

Ad-blocking the newsrotater and chartwidget reduce the memor usage down to ~90,000K.  Still not good enough though.

Poor performance like this is shameful.

PS:  The performance of IE (2nd best browser around) is only 70k on-start.

Is it me or has the amount of users decreased since the update. Before 2k was common. Now its barely above 1k