Just tried the M! and it worked much faster than the older Index Reader
Great thank you for letting me know.
I think maybe the problem is that I haven't been testing with the old index reader, and I probably did something to make it slower.
All work is being done on the new index reader and that is the one that is loading 200,000 messages in 0.2 seconds on my laptop.
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/02/17 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Sector 7 (21:1/108)