Slowly but surely…
As you’ve probably noticed, our new site is running a bit slow and it’s having intermittent teething problems. We kinda expected this, but it doesn’t make it any less frustrating for you and we’re working on fixing it. The slowness is largely because the database that holds the content is absolutely massive. There are nearly 19,000 posts and about 400,000 comments going back to 2003. It’s also because of the way that the site is served up to each of …