That’s a bunch of BS.
Page load times are way higher.
At a base level each post load is a database query. At a minimum, on a well optimized and indexed system that’s ~ .005 s per query.
Loading a page with 10 post is only 1 query.
Ergo, on this claptrap of a software it take .005x10 to load the same content the other forum would load in .005
To top it off, the database has been lagging more and more over time, causing the website not to even function right on mobile when we get to weekends.
That’s why scrolling a page fast hitches.
If the software did things properly, maybe then, you’d have no issues.
By doing things properly I mean that you batch your queries up instead of loading 1 by 1 and wasting DB calls.
If the forum was using AzureDB the current data cost may be somewhere above 10k a month, instead of the maybe $100 it should actually cost.