I have no doubt it is the extra ads and the facebook crap.

every other site/forum that has added the facebook crap gets bogged down.

I'm sure the new version does the queries differently and loads the pages differently and that is probably also a big problem. and the static sizing and all of that doesn't help either.

I get that you can't get rid of the ads, the forum has bills to pay, but there needs to be a way to have the ads and it not run down the performance of the site.
The old version didn't have that problem.

The facebook connect thing, I just don't get why TR needs that. Is it really that popular of a feature? Would we really be looking at loosing members because we don't have a facebook like button?