This is probably my own ISP (nd probably a failing server in this network) but I have been having problems loading the forums lately. It is however intermittent. Just curious if other people seem to also seem to be having this issue as well?
Yes, definitely. I was hesitant to post about it here because I thought it might be local and not important. But that makes two of us, so there probably is something going on. My complaint is well described by the OP. I am in central valley of California, and have the same problem when using my vpn from various locations.
And I'm on Comcast. For me I got timeouts, like the site was down. I did get forums main page to load once, but only the "main" html - css and images did not download because of timeouts. I watched it download (not) in httpWatch and all but that main html timed-out.