Has talkbulls and talkbears been running really slow for anyone else? Does it have something to do with the updates both sites got? Just wondering...

Yes, all the database work is being done and while SoxTalk is undergoing it's massive upgrade, all the satellite sites will be working a bit slow.

Yep, what Slav said. I'm running massive queries in the background for the 3rd site (Soxtalk) which is being updated now (and since the database consists of over 1.5 million posts it takes almost all of the server resources to run the queries.

Later on this week all the sites should be flying (everything should be faster than it was before we made the upgrade to the newer board formats).

Any Idea when the Bears site will be fully complete?