That period of slowness was caused by some maintenance I'm doing. It might happen a small handful of additional times over the next ~8 hours (but hopefully it won't).
On the bright side, I've done several things which should significantly improve average forum speed once I'm done here.
hello sir, i just wonder if that maintenance you do also affects our posts counts? i just observed that my post count reduces, they said you are some sort of deleting some redundant threads so if someone posted to that thread, his post count will definitely be affected, is this true?