It appears we have isolated the recent slowness issues and they should be gone now. It was a result of some dumb coding (server load intensive) I did years ago that just now reared its ugly head because we are so much busier. Anyways its prompted me to look for more issues before they happen and you may see some changes here and there while I do them.
First change is the
last 100 new topics page. It's been completely recoded for more efficiency and now shows timestamps and forums.