Doug Thompson

It does an immediate check when you open your session (login) and that triggers your subsequent 5-minute interval checks.

I think we’ll probably be able to make it more frequent again, as we start to see the performance load. Perhaps the bigger problem was that it was doing frequent PM checks even for anonymous visitors who weren’t logged in. So,…[Read more]

Private Messaging is now restored, and we hope our changes will prevent it from slowing down the forum page loads. Please note that one of our changes was, for user notifications, to set it to check for new PMs every 5 minutes, which is less frequent than the previous setting. This doesn’t impact how quickly you’ll receive a new PM, but means…[Read more]

Apologies, but we’ll need to temporarily disable Private Messages; it’s the culprit in our performance problems right now.