Well you know I'm with you Marshall, and really, my experience through the upgrade has not been bad. I think things load more consistently now, blog entries have simplified and we have dropped the arcane file naming convention in the revised site. For somebody creating content I think things are better, clearly - but you do have to work to post content - its not dead simple like blogger.

I just feel bad to see others suffering and even staying away. We have all used PHP forum sites and they always load like a express train. People are always going to come here with the same expectation. I've surfed the Plone home site and it performs well, if perhaps not quite as fast as a fast forum, but its clear that the software can perform in the right conditions.