Actually, a topic on this has been brought up in the administration forums as well, so you guys aren't the only ones that have noticed. My feeling is it's probably increased traffic in the forums which is causing increased load on the databases that handle the forums and posting and the like. The Renderosity site as a whole receives tremendous amounts of hits every day. I believe I once heard they use a terabyte or more of bandwidth a month! They're always working to improve the servers and keep the speed up as high as possible though. Anyways, not much help but hopefully a little bit of an explanation. David L. Writer's Coord.