The forums seem to be very slow this morning, not sure why, but I have a concept for consideration....
There are more than 7K topics in the forums, and more than 10K posts, the basic forum alone has the most. I don't know if that causes slowdowns or not. In my office we use a system like this:
Active board all stuff within the last 30 days
Standing board All stuff still relevent after 30 days
Dead file everything else taken from Active board
Could a similar concept help here? Make like an archive section where the majority of posts go after a certain time period. I don't know if this would help, or even be possible, but I thought if nothing else it might get some folks to thinking. This is by no means a bash either, I think this board is the best on the net, just trying to do my part to make it even better!