I did see the other thread, but thought mine was a different thread topic. The other topics were about disabling flash entirely to access the site. I can access the site, but your flash ads (which seemed to be first reported as problematic on 22 May) were bringing my browser to a crawl. I understand you merging the threads, but I think a thread requesting that flash ads be discontinued because of their browser impact is an appropriate one, so other can chime in on this. Not being able to access a forum is a somewhat different, although seems to related, issue to having the ads bring a browser to a crawl.

Just an FYI, when I have flash enabled on FT, the Adobe Flash plugin goes to about 25% of CPU usage, and occasionally as high as 40%.