Is the NNTP forum unusually slow?

[Kagamin]

On Tuesday, 16 July 2013 at 02:12:54 UTC, Meta wrote:
> 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.

You're talking about forum.dlang.org which is just a web frontend 
to the NNTP newsgroup, it caches the content in a database and 
doesn't talk to the newsgroup server every time.