Is the NNTP forum unusually slow?

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On Tuesday, 16 July 2013 at 01:16:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Not sure whether it's an issue on my end. Since a few days ago 
> (can't tell exactly when because I was on crappy connections 
> for a while) the NNTP forum seems to be really really slow. Is 
> this happening to others as well?
>
> Andrei

Usually the forum and the website are very fast for me. However, 
occasionally they (the forum and/or the website) will take a long 
time loading, generally on the order of seconds.