SWF.com message board is great. Not too much to load.
THeir purchasing pages are a different story... Too much information and things to load at the same time, i'm on a T1 at work and it is still slow (10 secounds or so). They REALLY need to categorize the fish/inverts/coral sections into different pages, like clowns should have their own page, crabs, etc. This would help load time a lot. Sorry for the rant...
No, the message board isn't slow, what is your connection speed? Are cookies enabled?