This site goes down with monotonous regularity.
As in sometimes on a Sunday evening unless there’s maintenance going on to make it stable. You must permanently think you have diarrhoea unless you only shit once a week.
The forums are not finely divided enough. Topics sink onto the 2nd page sometimes within hours.
It’s a busy forum, subdivisions aren’t going to happen they’ve already divided a few times from what they were. Your not going to get a multi divided forum on here, as you can see a majority don’t want it.
PM will put extra pressure on the DB so unlikely to happen.
Personally I think all they need is a SQL guru to have a really good look at the database and give it a bit of tuning.
Toms are doing just that they’re working behind the scenes and have a few plans, it takes time. “…600 database queries performed every second during normal conditions.” is a lot of pressure.
The server has been upgraded and was due some hardware tests, as I mentioned in the sticky this may have been in the early hours hence the downtime earlier.
These problems aren’t being ignored, if you think they’re causing you worry not visiting your favourite site you imagine how the guys who make a living from ST feel.