[theolein]

I know this suggestion has been made before, but still. The CGI on this board is obviously overwhelmed, especially during peak hours. I have no idea what hardware you guys are running or the OS (BSD or LINUX?) but how is this for an idea:
1.Why don't you post a poll for users to request their favorite features
2.Why don't you start a sourceforge project either in JSP .Servlets or PHP that members here can work on if they're inclined.
3.We work out a spec and a dev plan together and then let people start workng on it
4.IT will take time but I for one would like the opportunity to work with JSP

I favour JSP-Servlets and Postgresql because they scale better and provide distributed computing which with another box or so would be fine.

Any takers?

[Scotttheking]

The software isn't the problem, the hardware is.
It would be a real pain to switch over to new, not very tested software.

But that is just my opinion.

[parallax]

Way back when, we tried using PHP, but apparently it created even more problems.

The solution to all of this is the [mirage of a] new server. It's hard to hack UBB when you can't afford to waste time loading pages after pages.

[gorgonzola]

Yes, unfortunately the software itself is not really the problem, it's more that the software is running on a machine that is WAY under the minimum requirements (think OS X Public Beta on a Quadra, natch), so even different forum software would likely have a problem.

We just need a new frickin' server! It's currently about 1/3 the minimum specs...

Unfortunately, the hundreds of emails we have sent have fallen on deaf ears

(Same for AI, btw -- I email those people fairly often)