We had an extended down period from Thursday to Friday (depending on your time zone). The site should not be any slower as a result of this. Are you still experiencing a problem?
I wish that when there are going to be planned down times, somebody could give the Am3 community a little advance notice. It's very distressing when you are not sure if it is your computer, your server, or Am3 that is the problem.
In a related topic, AM3 requested to know when the server was slow. It is slow now, between 7 and 7:40 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, USA. Not unbearably slow, but slower than usual.
I've noticed a lot of slowness and timeouts over the last week. Today has been particularly bad especially around 1:00pm MDT (GMT -7). I've noticed this both from home and work (yes I come here while I'm at work too...). Have there been any problems?