My gut says the board is way slow since reinstating the quotes, but then again, that's my gut and not an objective anything. Could just be the afternoon slowdown, either of the internet or my own brain.

Me too. OTOH, I'm not entirely sure I would have noticed if Tom hadn't mentioned it, so I'm happy leaving any decisions in the hands of people with access to actual numbers.

Interestingly, it has not seemed slower to me.

Seems as fast to me, on my old, slow work machine.

Haven't noticed any change in speed.

Speed seems the same to me. Quotes! Yay!

I haven't noticed any slowdown at work, but I'll see how it is at home on dial-up.

Hmmm...

Looking at the system stats, it turns out there is always a system spike on weekdays between 11:00am and 1:00pm board time.

Today's spike was a little larger than usual; the board did slow down at the time the quote generator was reenabled, but there's no way to establish if those two events were correlated.

We need to see if the performance of the board is impacted over several days.

I can make pretty graphs, if you like.

I can make pretty graphs, if you like.

Shiny!

As one who was griping about a big slowdown, I have to say that it does seem much faster now. I'd be very interested to know what shows up with a little more time (and pretty graphs).

We could always tie the random quote generator to a cron job, have the quote change only once a day...

Yep. I proposed that ages ago. However, as ita pointed out, that requires work. :)