I think you'll find the speed of the site is related to the user's computer!  Which is why there is so much variation in perception.  Yeah, seems impossible, but if you have a slow PC and/or video card and/or limited memory, this site will run slow.

Here's an example - and yeah, I still have a 1GHz PC with a very old/average video card - open a fresh copy of a modern browser with Tab support, and go ahead and open about 6 tabs pointing to R'osity Forums.  After about 4 or 5 you'll find your even your mouse starts to behave bizarrely, and take a long time to react.  Go up much above 8 tabs and the browser will be unusable while any network traffic is occurring.

And before anyone ridicules 6+ tabs, that's the fastest way to read Forums, esp. from a slow site, middle-button click each article you want to read on that page, click next page, and go read the others while it refreshes.

Now, I've not found ANY other site in the universe that behaves this way.  Heck, a 286 outta be enough to run a browser.

The reasons may be many, but one that seems obvious to me is:

 - This FCKEditor (that's its name not an expression of my opinion of it) uses a huge amount of javascript resources.  Nothing against FCKEditor, or even the amount of resources - I use a very similar one.  But not on EVERY PAGE!  Have it on a click to bring up when/if you reply.  Or do what almost every other forum with a reply box does: have a simple no-bells-&-whistles "Quick Reply" box on bottom of every forum page, with a button to take you to the FCKEditor "wsyiwyg" editor version if you want/need it.  (And also please install the FCKEditor option to NOT take away the built-in spellcheckers available in today's browsers - or pay the $$$ to FCK for his spellcheck utility.)

But clearly something is very wrong - which cannot be related to server speed, network traffic, or anything else out on the 'Net - when your otherwise very slick and fast browser suddenly starts to fall over itself just because you went to www.renderosity.com and dared to open more than 1 tab/window...

BTW, I rarely come here to the Forums anymore - just came to read reviews of DAZ V4 - so this isn't a complaint, more an attempt at constructive criticism.  It really makes no diff. to me if the speed of this site is ever fixed or not, as I personally was driven out of near-daily involvement with this community when this new/improved service was rolled out.