Also, my screen will occasionally go blank after I've tried to do any of the above, or if I'm trying to reach the board from my bookmark. ... Is it my computer, or are other people experiencing the same thing?
This was a problem that was happening after the move to the new server but before I opened access back up again. I wasn't able to access any pages except for the error messages that come up whenever someone tries to access the forum using an Url longer than
http://www.dsboards.com/ or
http://www.dsboards.com. It was caused by the fact that the compression method that was supported by our old host isn't supported by our new one. However, as soon as I realized what was happening and changed the forum's setting to no compression, all pages became accessible again. I even made a point of having both Midnite and Dom navigate around the forum on their own to make sure that there weren't any other problems I wasn't aware of. They found none. So unfortunately, I can't honestly explain why you should be getting blank pages. Sorry.
Several times while trying to move from one post to another or jumping from one board to another, the link will fail to respond, and no matter how many times I click it, the page will not change.
On the other hand, this sounds like a connection issue. It could be a bottleneck somewhere along the path from your ISP to the server. Or it could be that due to excess traffic on the Web your throughput drops drastically to the point that your browser isn't receiving/sending a response from/to the server. I can't say how many times I've been frustrated by that very thing happening to me on any number of different sites I regularly visit. I usually log out of my ISP, log back in, and then the sites respond normally again. You might try to see if that works for you too.
P.S.--In an unrelated matter, I'm curious as to when/if the board will be able to accept new members. Any idea, moderators?
Funny you should bring this up because Midnite, Dom and I have been discussing that very subject tonight. Our interim host's default bandwidth per month is five times what it was on our old host, so I'm happy to report that guest access and registration to be reopening very soon.