Am I the only one having problems? The last 3-4 hours it takes ages to load a page, if it even loads at all, and the site is moving at an alarmingly slow pace. It's becoming almost impossible to use the site. Is there some maintenance or something going on? Is anyone else experiencing this too?

same here

Same here. VGC has been slow for a long time though from time to time. But today is extra bad. And my posts don't wanna stick.

Works fine here

using Firefox 3.5.5 btw

Probably database issues, I had some downtime and slowdown earlier as well. I would assume most of the content is stored in mySQL databases here and they can have issues at times.

Same problem here I think there should be a restriction of images in the sigs I think that would really help.

Same here. VGC has been slow for a long time though from time to time. But today is extra bad. And my posts don't wanna stick.

Thank god it's not just me... I wonder what's going on :/

Guess am lucky then :)

I would more the bet that the databases are just overloaded, when you have as much content being drawn from them as they do here it's easy to rack up a ton of errors which can cause slowdown, it could also be the server's ram, might be to many incoming connections, who knows. I suffered similar slowdown from such issues on my own websites.