Maybe it's just me but I'm experiencing slow page loads and really slow message postings, not all the time, it seems to be occurring in the late evening for the past few days.
I've tried all the normal tricks such as cache clearing, rebooting etc, to no avail.

PS:
As a for instance, it took almost 25sec for the above message to post.

havent noticed anything and i regularly access it from 2 locations and about 3 different computers + iphone

Who is your ISP?

It does happen from time to time.

Still has long been one of my favourite sites as it usually loads both fast and clean even during that Gawdawful spell when I was stuck with dial-up.