The page acts as if it has loaded, completely.
I use IE (I think version 6, and a broadband connection). I am sorry I don't know the proper terms for things, so I'm going to get 'splainy. In the bottom bar in my window ie (status bar?), a little white retangular box opens up (over on the right, but to the left of the little globe that appears next to the word "Internet").
On slower loading websites, as a page loads, that little white box fills up with green bars. When I'm trying this threadsuck, it take about 15 seconds to get each green bar for the first three or four bars. After a while. Then it fills up with green, and the page fully loads, but it is empty of posts. The browser is not waiting any more, and there's the little ie "e" and the word "done" at the bottom left.
Here's a copy and paste of what I get on the page:
Natter 30: Piss off, Bitches!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.then a solid line, the "Buffista Home" link, and another solid line, then nothingness. I hope that answers your question. Thank you, Tom.
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The same thing just happened when I tried to threadsuck 2000 posts, and then 1000 posts.