Meetup.com - too bulky

I'm enjoying looking at their website, however, it fails horribly at this criteria: a light, fast, simple, basic website that loads quickly on dialup on computers using an old browser. Other than that, I like them so far. They are an extremely slow loading page and I suspect they would load very slowly even if I was on cable internet. The page also started malfunctioning and almost locked up the browser, so I had to turn all the pages to 'author mode' in Opera and I had to use the firewall to make it stop downloading whatever it was downloading. Whatever it was, it kept on trying and trying and trying to give something to my computer even after I shut the firewall. This is a major annoyance. I don't want to use any website that behaves like that. Everything about it looks really cool too. I like their concept of 'using the internet to get off the internet' and their focus on getting real things done in the real world. I will have to look at them on another computer where the bulky badly designed website isn't as much of a problem. Nobody else will see it as a problem because most other people are using cable internet and new browsers. But it bothers ME.

Also, they are indeed a paid, for-profit company. I don't mind companies being for profit - that's not the problem. I just don't like 'companies' that are 'for profit' in today's world, in American society, under this government, with these laws, that require you to meet specific definitions of 'what is profit?' I disagree with their definitions. They believe that you are still profiting even though you are millions of dollars in debt. I want a company that does not use debt. It can make profit, but it might not be 'profit' in quite the way that most companies view it nowadays. It won't be 'borrow a hundred million dollars and build something huge with it and hire lots of expensive programmers to make something that should have been done using plain text,' and all that. I am already very annoyed that I cannot just easily view this website on my computer - that's the first, and biggest, turnoff for me. That already has made me distrust the whole company. Whatever I like about them, I will always know that something, somewhere, is terribly wrong, because they have a huge, bulky, weird website that won't function on my computer. Do you think I'm joking? I'm dead serious. If the website is huge and bulky and malfunctioning, then that curses the entire company, in my mind. Whatever it was doing to my computer, I could hardly even stop it by putting up the firewall. I don't like that. I want PLAIN TEXT. What part of 'PLAIN TEXT' and 'DIALUP' (or 'MOBILE ACCESSIBLE') don't you understand?