For bitbucket issue #2, tweak the admin settings for the Post model to reduce slow queries. Define our own queryset() method so we can control the select_related(), and not have it cascade from post to topics to forums to categories. Removed 'topic' from list_display because MySQL still sucked with 2 inner joins. Now it seems to be tolerable with only one join to User.

"""views for the IRC application"""

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext

from irc.models import IrcChannel

def view(request):
   nicks = IrcChannel.objects.all()
   return render_to_response('irc/view.html',
         {'nicks': nicks},
         context_instance = RequestContext(request))