What's wrong with the forums today?

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Today was the slowest twoplustwo surfing experience I've had over the last almost two years. It takes several seconds now to load threads that were instantaneous as recently as yesterday. There have also been at least 7 brief server downtimes today causing me to get the "This page has taken too long to load" message. There was the usual ~4:15am downtime and then another a couple hours later. Then periodically throughout the day there were some that lasted anywhere between a couple of seconds and a minute.

Is there a reason for this? I asked another poster via AIM if he was experiencing the same thing and he was so I don't think that this issue could be related to my internet connection.