Well, I don't want to go off-topic to much, so I'll make a "brief" comment on the various platforms, just in case this could have any value (which I doubt).
I definitely found your comments interesting. I've never given either Reddit or Discord what I'd consider a fair chance, and I absolutely acknowledge that forums are what I'm used to so they're comfortable, so it was good to read feedback that articulated many of my impressions of those other platforms better than I could!
Bringing it back to forum performance, my impression is that it has remained pretty good (for these forums at least) for a while now, with the exception of a few minutes on Wednesday evening when I was getting timeouts. There have also, usually, been far fewer instances of the bots that we were provisionally blaming for the slowdown. So that is consistent with our hypothesis that they were responsible, but given the number of variables it's a long way away from confirming it.
I'm going to continue to keep a closer eye on bots and on performance so we can highlight problems to Larian. Feel free to continue calling out here if you're experiencing unusually poor response times.
"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"
