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There's no way it's taking 7-15 seconds to load a page, not for me for the last 4-5 months.
It went through a slow period in October or so last year, but it's been good lately. Pages load within a second or two for me.
Whenever slowness issues arise, it's due to bandwidth on the server - as janos said, it shares bandwidth with other high traffic sites, and of course this site is being high traffic as well with loads of page loads, refreshes, images etc.
If the progress bar doesn't start moving within 2 seconds, usually I click again and it appears instantly.
It's also true that we hope to move to a new server soon - will chase up when it's likely to happen. It hasn't been as high a priority for the last several months because performance has been good, for me, and to my knowledge, for everyone else as well because there's been no complaints.
As for the thread order, you have options in your user profile and also at the bottom of each thread listing.
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