Same here, tjc!

Unfortunately, there's nothing that can be done.

When it gets so bad that we are timed out, I'll ask the tech team to intervene. 

It may be related to the amount of traffic and the limits of our site to handle big numbers. I notice that when I post  something from MarketForum on Twitter or Facebook it tends to slow us down for awhile after that.

We got rid of the ads which were really slowing us down many years ago.