I've noticed how much slower the site is lately...and it's not my computer, because I tried accessing BWS from several different computers while on vacation the past few weeks and all were MUCH slower than mine.

I'm wondering if it might have something to do with all of the pictures included in the threads. Even if the pictures are coming from an outside source, could that not affect how quickly (or slowly) those threads load? The slowness seems to have become more noticeable since we began regularly including pictures (some are fairly large) in our threads. Like Cookie says, it could have something to do with how the server is set up to handle graphics, or even how to process the links to those graphics.