Getting to the site from the USA is next to impossible for most users.
Internet bottle neck (of sorts) that are in the UK. This was supposed to
be fixed last week when things got slow. Still pretty bad. Also had a guy
in the chat rooms from the UK and he said it was pretty slow. People in
the Netherlands and most of Germany (from what they tell me) the site
is fast and no recent problems.
On a personal note I find the site, or the connection TO the site, terribly
slow and lots of packet loss. So if anyone is asking, its not the site.