@Logician...Then why is that error occuring for the majority of users, and not me?

Satan

Dont know Chris, I dont have access to vb.org scripts to trace the problem.. ;)

But if you want a guess: I would say a hack in showthread.php or getpostbit function in functions.php might be the cause. (If its not a vb bug in the first place) To make sure you have to trace the bug by debugging in the source code.

The problem is server sided though, not related to page visitor, although a visitor related thing is apparently triggering it..

Indeed...

Perhaps it will slow down for me soon, or speed up for you guys...

It could just be something completely random...I suppose you are bound to get a large server load from places like vB.org & vB.com...

Satan

Just to confirm what Logician has said thoughout that its not ISP related, I'm at Uni with a different OS, Net conection and a host of proxies and firewalls and the result is still the same for me:

Then, like Logician suggested, it could be user related...

Perhaps Chen got fed up with some of you;):Dj/k

Satan

Any ideas on whats common to all the users this is happening for?

I've tested it today at my Uni logged in and logged out.
no problems, as fast as it should be..

also you all are in the same usergroup, i don't think chen has added an hack so just 4 people would be not as fast ;)

maybe some things which are equal for you...
same users on buddy/ignore list which appears on this thread.
showing images on/off...

somewhere must be the problem ;)

Just had a fiddle and it was what I thought at the start of this thread, the links to PHP Functions, went into the User CP, turned it off and it worked fine:

ahhh, that's it.....

yes i have turned of this feature long ago ;)

I just checked and it seems to be off for me too, I never even knew it existed, that must be it then :). Good work team, we have just solved the mystery!