We are currently working on optimizing server speed. One of the many things done is to disable temporarely the who's online list.

It will be reenabled as soon as the server load allows this additional load. Same goes for forum search.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Is there anything, we, the users can do?

maybe things like not refreshing a city page every 10 seconds lol

I'm innocent of that, actually. My crime is refreshing the forums index every 30 secconds.

Is there anything, we, the users can do?

Turn off your Greasemonkey scripts and your external scripts. They are hitting entire pages only to get a small info from them.

got it, No firefox for me for a few days, only good ol IE7

got it, No firefox for me for a few days, only good ol IE7
why? I use firefox and I just turned the script off! do you think it makes a difference for the server to use firefox or IE?

I like IE7 better, I only use Firefox for the script.

I like IE7 better, I only use Firefox for the script.
OK, I understand. I never tried IE7, I have IE6 on my PC and I have not used it for months...

what is the reason for the slow speed? there were not that many online and it was still slow..The last time i check it was slow and had only 68 people online..and we are cutting things that slow it down like searches and such..Whats going to happen when the reset comes? Will the server just crash???
maybe..pming needs to be cut off..I bet that will help alot...

There are a lot of people who refresh every second or so, people who use scripts (mostly greasemonkey) to load many pages simultaneously, etc. You get the point.

Hence the forum number is by no means the right indicator to check for activity.