In the past week or so I noticed that authentication to the forum had been a little slow but I had been able to log in. A new user contacted via email to inform me that they could log into the other applications (Confluence and JIRA) but not JForum. Through some investigation I found that the JForum-JIRA connector was still doing a portion of the authentication and authorization against the old OpenNeL server (open.nevrax.org) and these servers are no longer online. This is why it was awful slow. JForum cached people who had logged in since the last Tomcat reboot but as soon as I restarted Tomcat I was no longer able to log in as well. This has all been resolved and all users should be able to authenticate with JForum and it should no longer be slow! Thank you for your patience.