To everyone asking about misc site and forum problems:
Currently, we're not actually working on JoeUser specifically. We're preparing to launch a new version of WinCustomize.com and doing optimizations to databases that the two sites share (accounts, articles etc...). JU is on the list of site projects for early next year (at least that's the plan so far...). At the moment, we don't have spare net dev resources since everyone is hell-bent on getting WinCustomize finished and launched. As resources free up, we may be able to take a look at JU glitches in advance of the larger site project (maybe... no promises). All I can say for now is sit tight with the current wonky behavior of the site. Things WILL get better, just not immediately.
Also, we'll be doing additional tweaks to the shared databases, so hopefully over the next few weeks, articles and forum posts will load faster. We've already seen significant improvements here and on the WC side from the few simple tweaks Jeff did yesterday.
MM:
When are you seeing the slowness? It's possible you're running into problems when we're doing some after-hours database jobs.
Kingbee:
Locking replies once they are no longer the most recent I *believe* is an intended design. This prevents people from getting into a heated debate, saying something nasty, and then when called on it, going back to edit it and saying "What are you talking about? I NEVER said that... show me proof I ever said that!" We've seen it happen with blog articles in the past many times.
