Yesterday (8/27) I left this site because pages were opening at glacial speed. This morning (8/28, 8:50 AM PDT) the site is behaving like any other; i.e., quick page openings. I will check again later in the day.
8:59 AM I take it back. Submitting this post took over a minute, and then I was returned to a blank page. Clicking on my bookmark for the Forums, returned me to a blank page. Finally using the browser History to get to this specific forum worked, but page loading is back to semi-glacial speeds.