A moderator reported that moving topics took a long time in production and our sandbox.  I just tried it and got 70 seconds through the GUI!  It didn’t used to take this long.  I’m comparing our development sandbox a few months ago to our development sandbox today.  Clearly something has changed.  The question is what! [...]

JavaRanch successfully cutover to our new forum software yesterday.  Unsurprisingly, we had a variety of small problems that cropped up.  One of them was the fact that anonymous users were able to post. Below follows the thought process and steps involved in fixing it.  And then in fixing the problems caused by the fix! A [...]