[forums-announce] Small inconveniences

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Well, the forums continue to grow, which is good news for the community, but bad news for the overworked machine that serves them. We are actively working on finding a long-term solution to this problem, but in the meantime, we are trying to do the best we can with what we have.

To that end, we have been analyzing hotspots in phpBB, and trying to mitigate them. Two changes that users will notice are:

• The "Who is Online" list is no longer sorted in alphabetical order
  
• Topic view counts are no longer being updated. Reply counts are still being updated.

These measures are temporary, until we can find hosting alternatives. Sorry for any inconvenience.
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