We are going to be disabling Guest Posting on all forums. There has been too many problems with spammers to leave it enabled. We hope that this will not impact too many formers in an adverse manner. We do believe this will help improve the overall performance of the forums by helping keep the spammers out.
The Database work is pretty much complete. We will continue to monitor and tweak some of the database settings over the next few days. If you notice any significant slow down please let us know.
Forums have been really slow over the last few days. It looks like due to the huge growth we have had lately that we need to upgrade our database servers. Hopefully the upgrade will be complete tonight or early tomorrow. Thanks everyone for hanging in there.
-Webmaster