Surprised to hear that you are having speed problems. We've been testing outside of our direct connections to the server and have generally found pages serving much faster than before; I can even now access the forums via GSM and laptop, albeit fairly slowly as you would expect.

Have you set your personal preferences to display a lot of threads? If so we would suggest displaying less per page and/or calling a lesser time period. You can adjust both things in User Options.

Regarding your own messages, click on your own user name in the posted by column of thread indexes, then click on show all user's posts in the subsequent screen.