Something tells me it's the ad? (We switched ad servers today) Are you using an ad blocker?

Taking Dani's post to heart, I turned off my adblocker (AdBlock Plus 0.7.5) and it sped things up significantly.

Ditto. And adblocker.

The ad loads in an iframe though. The rest of the page should still load around it?

Dave, everyone who has access to Area 51 (mods, community helpers, etc) can now go into their control panels and next to the Disable IntelliTXT option is a new disable graphical ads option

<plug> Everyone else ... you can enjoy a true ad-free DaniWeb by donating for a few dollars a month. </plug>

If I could get the 1-year thing but pay each month, I'd have signed up a couple minutes ago... unfortunately, I can't take the 1-year rate atm... (and I'm too cheap to do it a month at a time )

What do you mean by "true"? You know what I'm asking.

I was actually talking to fluffy bunnies or cute bunnies (forget his name) in IRC about an appropriate price to charge for donations ... something that would at least let me break even with the money being lost on the advertisements.

I mean that when you hack having no ads by using an ad blocker, you get big empty white spaces where the ads are supposed to be. But when you set it up in your control panel, you get a truly no-ads version which means the space is all nicely closed up and the quick reply box is wide without having an ad next to it, etc.

I disabled ad blocker plus and it is still happening.