Quote Originally Posted by CreepHiveMind View Post
Removal of the leaderboards will reduce a significant amount of lag.
The leaderboards are down for months at a time on BW and BW still has constant lag.
If uploading to the boards every 5 minutes causes lag, why not update the boards every 6 hours/12 hours/24 hours instead? Anyway, it's not that people are going to miss the 5 minute play by play renown/infamy gains, it's that we'll miss the daily updates of yesterday's gains and the ranking of who's #1.

The mechanic can be implemented in the new forums. It seems that turbine would rather it didn't exist at all.