Cnet is currently preparing for a major overhaul of the forums, starting with the movement of these forums to a set of new servers next month. Once the changeover occurs you should see a heft increase in performance. I don't know if that will have any effect on the e-mail notifications (which I must admit are horribly slow at arriving), but one can hope.
John
Hey, I've been with the forums for a long while now, and you all have usually been pretty good about helping me with my questions. I've been meaning to ask this for a long time now, but:
Is there any way of getting immediate notification of replies to message threads, instead of just whenever cnet decides to send 'em? Other forums have options such as daily digest, immediate, or none, but here, it seems it defaults on none unless I click "track this discussion," and then it sends them to me with two or three replies already made. It works, just seems slow.
Speaking of slow, this forum is the slowest site I visit. Okay, maybe not the very slowest, but it's down there... myspace, newegg, google, lots of other sites load fairly quickly compared to this site. I realize I'm on dialup, but it seems it's just SO slow compared to the others. First, it loads the yellow background and right sidebar, then hangs out for a little bit, then pretty much drops the whole page on me. It's as if it tries to load the whole page before displaying it, which is pretty much annoying on dialup, especially considering I often don't need to see the whole page.
Thanks again for all the help you've provided in the past...

Chowhound
Comic Vine
GameFAQs
GameSpot
Giant Bomb
TechRepublic