| I'm glad I found this thread! The main page has been slow to load for me since the switch to the new software. (I'm using Firefox.) I've taken to loading it in one window while doing other surfing elsewhere. It takes (really) minutes to come up. The funny thing is that it's a blank page for a long time and then suddenly you get all the content. The other pages (while not always zippy) reliably load in, at worst, a tolerable amount of time.
*Puts professor of computer science hat on* (A guy has gotta do something for a living.)
This smells to me of some sort of error in the code and not an error in the server setting. I recommend you examine the server side code that is supposed to run when the main page is loaded. Try creating a test page that's identical to main page (if that's reasonably easy) and then gradually removing bits of it until you figure out what the offending script is.
If I were you, I'd also try to reduce the duration of your debug cycle. I'm sure there are plenty of folks on this list who'd be happy to hit that page for you when you want to test something. If you can get about 10-20 of them on a temporary mailing list you could email us whenever you've made a change and probably get a response from at least 3-4 folks within 5 minutes.
*takes professor hat off* Also feel free to tell me to butt out of your debug problems. I'm grateful in any case for your hard work!
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