I wish. If I were the man I'd use my powers to get a better job!

If I could choose the powers I had bestowed upon me, I'd go for the ability to see through people's clothes, but only to the extent where I'd be able to see what they had in their pockets. I wouldn't want to look any further into the nether regions of the general populace.

That would be a good power to have. I'd want to be able to control the dept of my look. So that I could look at the nether if I so choose to.

I think freezing time would also be a pretty cool power to have!

Only if you can unfreeze time too of course.

Oh yeah, it would be shitty if you couldn't unfreeze it. Good catch!

Anyone remember that (American, I think) TV sitcom from the 80s where a small girl had the power to freeze time? No idea what it was called, but I know the opening credits had someone opening a door into a ladder holding a can of paint, which she duly froze and averted an unholy messy carpet.

Edit - looks like it was called Out of This World.

I don't remember it.

:((

Atrocious isn't it?

(Though I've just been through what I wrote to make sure you weren't quoting a mistake I made :-$ )

This should be part of the national curriculum.

:D

Slightly better today?

I have rate limited the search engine bots and also banned Baidu's bots as they kept visiting from many different IPs and creating lots and lots of sessions too.

Can't say I've noticed any slowness in the last day or so, so yes, better. Bravo, as far as I'm concerned!

Definitely less slow, yeah. Not as nippy as it used to be but better than it's been for a week or two.

The slowness was the 'waiting for tehforum.co.uk to respond' bit. Once it got round to responding the page loaded fast.

Maybe just a wee bit faster but not much for me.

It seemed to be pretty fast (not as quick as usual) yesterday until 10-11pm.

Not too bad at the moment for me.

Pretty sluggish for me this morning.

It's gone slow again, loading threads and stuff. Is it maybe related to the attachment/profile trouble that seems to be happening?

It seemed slow at work today but it's nice and quick on lite mode on my phone on a moving tram.

Not related to the attachments, that's just the permissions I messed up.

I think it's just the number of visitors we get. A lot of them are filling up the admin log with ban reports from Beehive's StopForumSpam integration, but that is cached for 24 hours so shouldn't be a problem. Maybe.

Seems pretty nippy right now, like right now.