[admin (no pm's please)]

I'm busy doing some benchmarks on forum.downsizer.net which is basically the same tech as myff phpbb2 forums.

Downsizer.net has a forum that is in rough terms as big as the biggest ones on myff as it has 649748 posts. In terms of people reading it though it is about 3x as busy as the busiest here  

I have come across a couple painfully long database queries, one is in an area where I had already put in a sneaky optimisation, and this one I have now ramped up to a higher level both here and on downsizer.

I'm now working on the other one, and if that works well on downsizer I will see about adding it here as well.

[admin (no pm's please)]

Early days yet, but it does seem to work on downsizer. Only catch is that searches can no longer be ordered by username of forum id. But I can't recall ever having had a use for that.