Computer access has become impossibly sllooowwww
I have an "older" computer, one that's neither as fast nor has as much memory as the latest and greatest. (But it's paid for:-) I have a broadband connection, which provides a pretty snappy display of lightweight sites.
TFL has always been a bit slow for me to access, but in the past it's just been an annoyance. Sometime in the last few days though access became really slow. When I click on a thread topic on the home page, after suffering through two browser warnings about possibly looping Javascript, I finally see the thread after more than 20 seconds. When I'm done and go Back to the home page, it costs another 20 seconds every time. (And other operations have the same or even worse delays.)
I thought the days of the "World Wide Wait" were long past ...but maybe not.
(It's been my experience that the software life arc passes the "done" stage at some point, after which it continues to become slightly more robust and slightly more feature rich, but at the cost of much higher compute power needs. Has Drupal perhaps passed this point of diminishing returns?)