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I always notice an increase in CPU cooler fan speed when viewing this forum. So I have just been monitoring processor use on this and the Audimaster's forums. On my dual 3GHz this forum peaks at a massive 55% usage when going backwards and forwards through the threads whereas Auddiomasters is a minimal 9%.
Just scrolling up and down a page seems to use anything up to 25%.
What a waste of processing and power!
Yesterday I tested the forum under FF 3.5 and IE8 and it worked perfect on FF, but IE8 was horrible especially when trying to reply... Then again a lot of other pages were also horrible under IE8 too... After a few updates on this computer it seems to run better, but the reply section is still not right. The newest FireFox works perfectly though and I haven't had any crashes with it. 
As far as Firefox is concerned, we appear to be in that rather awkward situation where not only does Firefox get updated, but so does Java. And since so much of this stupid forum is based on Java code that appears to have been appallingly badly slung together (Java isn't normally anywhere near this bad), you can never quite tell what's going to happen next.
As an example of what's sloppy about the Java implementation overall, let's look at the 'insert link' code. Firstly, when you get to post your link, it always starts with http:// and a) that's sometimes inappropriate, and b) it's downright annoying even when it is appropriate. When you copy and paste a link, you invariably get the entire link - and if you just paste it, it won't work properly. Anybody actually using this 'feature' will already be aware of the need to post an entire link, so there's not really any excuse based on 'example', I'd say. But that's not all - when you've finally got your link in there, and you look at what it's been called, you find that it's the entire link! So you have to open the HTML editor to edit this and give it a friendly title anyway if you don't want to create a mess. How simple would it have been to have two boxes, one for the URL and another for a friendly title? Actually pretty simple indeed - so why wasn't it done in this oh so wonderful 
software...
You will also notice above, or in fact anywhere where http:// is written, that the editor appears to try to treat it as a hyperlink anyway - and that's very poor editor coding, I'd say. At a bare minimum, you should be asked in a pop-up when you type it whether this is intended to be a link or not, and of course this simply doesn't happen.
And whilst we're about it, there's another thing - no rolling eyes emoticon. This would be extremely appropriate on this forum.
Except that Audiomasters Forum seems to be down today (at least I can't get on to it here in the UK). Just message saying "Database error, Please try again. If you come back to this error screen, report the error to an administrator". And since none of the links on that page work I cannot report it to a moderator 
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