since i basically live here i can say that most of the slowness i have experienced has been either

A) a new build of the site getting pushed to fix bugs makes things slow for a bit

B) high user traffic

while i don’t have access directly to the amount of users online i can confidently say that yesterday had the highest number of impressions on the ads per hour. can you imagine a world where we had boring google ads and actually made money off more people being here