Yeah it's kinda sad .I love how slow the site has gotten since about 2008... seems to get slower each passing day.
Mak pretty much just got busy with life.I haven't seen Mak around for ages either... Trotter is lurking about, but I haven't seen a post from KSoD for ages
Post the error (go into Dev Tools in your browser and it'll show the contents of the actual MySQL error) here: http://www.techist.com/forums/f5/slow-boards-271975/Oh and on the topic of when things were better, I loved not getting database errors all the time (just had one).
I haven't gotten one in a long time...but it's ridiculous that it's still happening.