Here's why your forum is slow....
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.interfans.org/sEACuXaL
And as for redirects...
You have alot of work to do... click on Minimize Redirects on that report to see the very long list.
Also, holy crap dude...
1.2MiB of JavaScript is parsed during initial page load. My total page size is under 300KB.. just your JS outweighs my page by quite alot.