Speed is back to normal today
I just checked our host's support furum (which also uses YaBB SE, BTW ) and as I suspected they have been working on their servers. Frankly, I don't understand how/why that would only seem to affect opening posts. But then, I don't know how they have their servers configured. However, if the problem turns into something that happens repeatedly, I'll certianly try to find out...
I had quite a slow down yesterday and the night before. Today, it took quite a while to get to the main forum page, but once here, everything seems to be going along fine.
By the way, I've been able to bypass that Introductory page!! For a lot of things that I do regularly, instead of using a bookmark, I click the little drop down box where the URL appears. Recent items are there. In IE, this is one of the few things I do, so that seems to be the easiest. Well, it lists
www.dsboards.com/indexse.html and that takes me straight to the main page instead of the introduction!!