Anon, one trivial- literal trival - thing you can do is to rewrite Catalog page.
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Replace all pictures as default empty image with some width and height
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Besides image, every thread title should link to a thread .
More traffic, catalog images aren't loading (and there are what, 300-400 thread images???)
can't click on any threads if image hasn't loaded.
This page:
/pol/catalog.html
Ideally you want html fully load, then load all images.
And if images didn't load users can still click on thread titles to get to the threads.
>same happens if you later on connect some content caching, like cloudflare
I would also reduce main catalog page to maybe 100 threads for faster load, and add pagination.
>t. ran a forum with over 1 mln posts on a single server