Perhaps some of those Lounge threads that have many posts need to come to an end and new threads created. I believe those threads have to load each time they are opened, and I know the Movie names thread always takes a while to open.
Something may be wrong with the forum clock, but the forum itself is running exquisitely quicker at the moment. Maybe the forum gods finally looked favorably upon us. Thanks again for all your hard work, Thumper. I hope this speed holds...
They've had their "top level" tech on it for about a week. Looks like they did screw up the server time, and in all of their infinite wisdom, they don't give me access to change the time on my own server. I can change the time zone only. Looks like the time was an hour off, so I adjusted the server time zone one hour to offset for now, but the next time I have several hour available to contact them, I'll have them fix it.