[schan]

The issue that I was having was that it took a long time to load up the home page. After troubleshooting, it was apparent that the algorithm to test for forum conflict names was causing a delay. I'm posting this as my solution just in case it helps anyone down the road.

If you have a huge forum, are experiencing slow page load, and have confirmed that you have no forum name conflicts, then remove this piece of code from the friendly url classes file.

else foreach($this->registry->forumcache as $fid => $finfo)
       if(self::clean_fragment($finfo['title']) == $slug && $fid != $forumid) {
                $clash = true;
                 break;
      }

Only do this if you can ensure that there are no forum name conflicts.