FORUM ISSUES: Report Upgraded Issues in this thread

To answer a few questions --

Yes - there are developers looking at this site and some of the others that were perviously migrated as something being reviewed impact multiple sites.
Yes - There was a fix that should have helped speed up the forum, and yes, indexing is still happening which might have some pull on the speed, but it shouldn't have much.
Auto-save in replies is done so that if you have an issue with the browser, you don't loose what you had typed. This was an issue in previous versions of vBulletin. I assume it saves to cache, but I don't really know. Someone else might know where it is saving to.
Noted - I see that the resolve thread is missing as well. The main developer is reviewing this thread, so it will be noted by them as well.