Hi,
I installed the sidebar mod on my board this morning, but had to take it down again as the board slowed down to a crawl.
We had guys on DSL complaining that it took up to 20 seconds to load a page.
I did see about a dozen Google spiders on the board as well (I had added Google AdSense to the sidebar), but they are still there now (although not as many) and the speed increased quite a bit after removing the sidebar.
Any suggestions as to what might have caused this slowdown?
Sanuk!