I don't know if anyone else has noticed (perhaps most of you don't leave the tab(s) open as long as I do) but there appears to be a memory leak in this site. Memory usage rockets (easily consuming nearly a GB of active memory) and the page can become unresponsive/sluggish. Eventually the page process needs forcibly ended using Chromes task manager, or the tab needs to be closed.

I haven't been able to pin down a cause since it never feels like acting up when I run the memory profiler on it, but the number of times I have been forced to crash the page is too high to ignore. Generally it behaves for a while, but will spontaneously begin to climb and lock up. I have yet to catch it in the act, so I can't be certain of the cause.

For reference, Gmail and Google Drive (two heavy web apps) only need 150-300megs each, and hold that number pretty constantly while idle. This forum shouldn't need to consume anywhere near that amount of memory (similar sites are 50-90 meg).

I have now reviewed a number of areas of the site and have tweaked some things, if you continue to experience this issue though please say. We are aware that certain features of the site may be slower than normal, the sudden increased load since the release of V6 is being dealt with accordingly.