Glacial pace of this forum during the last several hours visible to others?

Ah, the slowdowns and outages are becoming more widespread and more pervasive throughout the US, and the truth is coming out at a snail pace.

This mess here began after the Internet was attacked and eventually cut off in North Korea, now widely reported by the US media.  We're experiencing what appears the first retaliation from N. Korea.

Who knows where this will lead…

This site is fine as are many others.

Facebook remains a mess since yesterday.  Something is definitely wrong in some areas of the US:

OK for me, and no indication from the stats that this site is slower than usual.

I'd suggest running tracert to see where the delay is - How to use the Tracert command-line utility to troubleshoot TCP/IP problems in Windows