Since now we have confirmation that it is not the listings but the scans that cause the lag. How about have anyone that scans continuously for more than 1-2min DC. This should eliminate the all encompassing scanners and bot automation, while leaving regular scans for specific items intact. When the AH is working right a regular scan takes seconds anyway.
Always figured it was all the people (and bots) with those AH addons that caused it to slow.
if scans are the actual issue, blizz could more easily fix it with an api
What is amazing, is that after two weeks of this, both blizz and most of the player base still insist on the posting of single items being the issue. They don’t actually have anyone to investigate and are going by popular opinion which, as so often happens, is wrong. Easy to verify. Go into the AH on one of those bloated servers at off hours, like after the restart or in the middle of the night when the kids and “daddies” are sleeping. All the singles are still there, yet no lag, because no one is doing thousands of continuous scans of those singles per sec. It is not as if I expected any better from the company, given its track record, but still, a bit ridiculous.