I think I know why the forums can sometimes get slow, if you take a look at this page : https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=online You can see that there are robots crawling the forum. This is expected since those are used to index content for search engine. However, at the time that I write this post, there are 86 instances of the Aspiegel PetalBot crawler currently indexing pages in this forum. This one is known as a very aggressive Chinese crawler that can hog a considerable amount of bandwidth of a server, see : https://www.grantforrest.me.uk/index.php/software/16-petalbot-another-pain-in-the-bot If the forums slow down to a crawl again, Larian might consider to blacklist some misbehaving bots.
