Was wondering if this was just me, but the past week or so I've had real problems viewing the forum. It looks to me like a MySQL queueing issue, or a DNS issue, as the status bar will read "waiting for dyesubforum.co.uk" for a good thirty seconds or more before actually starting to load the page. With private messages, it's worse. Sometimes I have to force-stop the page from loading then go back to my inbox and try again. The reason I do this is because I'm convinced that it's a MySQL issue as I've seen it happen on busy forums before where so many requests (either from visitors or bots) force the request limit to be reached quickly and so everyone then falls into line behind those who requested first.
Either way, this past week or so has been frustrating as hell when it comes to the forum. It's not a 'net speed issue here either as I'm getting full speed elsewhere and it's not the hops between my PC to the forum's server as it's showing the same route for many of the sites I checked alongside it. It's just REALLY slow most of the time.