Yes, it's been awful for much of the day. I was even going to post here but couldn't as it kept timing out.
There has also been more dodgy bot activity than there has been over the past few days, though not at the levels we were observing back when the forum was like this a week or so ago, so that remains a possible though not certain culprit. I know vometia was intending to follow up that possibility further, so I'll check in with her.
"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"