# Is the board slower?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-board-slower/107175>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 4, 2002, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-board-slower/107175 "2002-05-04T00:07:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![turner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@turner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turner)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-board-slower/107175/1 "2002-05-04T00:07:57Z")

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Does the board seem slower in the past two or three weeks? I don’t think its my system because I don’t have problems when I log into any other site–just SDMB

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-board-slower/107175/2 "2002-05-04T00:36:18Z")

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The faq from ATMB page were this should have been posted answers your question…

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=103503](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=103503)

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-board-slower/107175/3 "2002-05-04T00:52:52Z")

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Since this is a question about this message board, I’ll move this thread to the About This Message Board forum.

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**Author:** ![BrandonR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BrandonR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrandonR)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-board-slower/107175/4 "2002-05-04T23:50:31Z")

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Maybe the Straight Dope should try out the new [phpBB](http://www.phpbb.com) 2.0? Free and is possible to perform better… 😉

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2002, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-board-slower/107175/5 "2002-05-05T15:06:32Z")

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Do you know of a site that has the same volume of posts (or greater) than the SDMB, had problems with vBulletin, and had those problems solved by changing to phpBB? If so, can you put us in touch with the administrators of that board?