This website is painfully slow

One can dream... :D

Yes, but enough of a performance improvement to avoid a load time that can sometimes reach minutes during peak hours?? Or worse, the frequently unresponsive database or related errors. If I were doing any sort of trading at the moment on Steamtrades it would make it very difficult due to the shared database (poor design decision due to the reliability as it turns out). The site is nigh (if not outright) unusable at times.

Anyway, not to sound ungrateful, but I kind of doubt it without some sort of database upgrade as well. It is whatever it is though and it's nice that there's finally word of some actual tangible progress.