Hi guys,

Here's the scoop. I figured out how to double the speed of the forum. Our tests show about 125% improvement. You can go to http://www.mudcat.org/sqlthreads/threads.cfm and see for yourself. This is a temporary version, as you will see it is outdated. You may post to this demo if you want to try it out, but it will not be posted to the real forum and will be deleted in the next couple of days.

We lost about 500 messages (out of 19,000) because of strange characters used. Rather than forget and discard these, I am going to shut down the forum for a few hours late tonight to get rid of those characters and redo the conversion. Then if the tests go well, we will go live with it maybe as early as tomorrow.

Please try the demo and let me know in this thread or create one on the demo and tell me what you think or how fast or slow it is. more later...