I've noticed recently that the forums are a lot slower than other websites. Firefox's network monitor says the server takes upwards of 6 seconds to respond when loading the page initially, but most other assets like CSS and images load pretty much instantly when I bypass the cache.
User avatars also take upwards of 6 seconds to load, and those are handled by PHP (file.php) rather than static.
Pages take a long time to load
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Re: Pages take a long time to load
Thanks for the report. The site was being aggressively scraped, causing high CPU load. brizzo has stopped it for now.