Massive slowdown and email notifications - This is a big problem.

This morning, Jan 28, 2020, I suddenly am getting an email every time I post something to the forum that says:

Hi Rick_Gerard,
Rick_Gerard just posted in a community you follow.

I checked notifications, it took, and I'm not exaggerating, more than three minutes for my profile to load, and I clicked on the notifications tab at 8:14 this morning and it's now 8:17 and still not notifications page. At 8:18 the page finally opened. I should mention that I have a 90+ Mbps fiber connection and Linkedin, Facebook, and just about any other site I log into loads in two or three seconds.

Nothing has changed in my notifications panel. Why am I now getting notifications with every post? It's a huge waste of my personal time. The Email me when someone replies checkbox is always on by default but I never want an email notification from these support forums and I never got them before. I also do not ever need, and I don't know anyone that needs an email telling them that they have posted something on any forum. They already know.

There are other threads on logging in problems and forum speed, but it has gone nuts today. Somebody in charge of the code needs to do some serious housecleaning. It's ridiculous to have so much going on in the background that a simple forum hands up for more than a minute every time you try and do something.