I wonder what "...System Generally Slow" means to you.

Do you experience the following? In any particular combination?

To me it means, sometimes:

• not getting email alerts re new posts for a half a day, sometimes a day, then getting a slug of them, bunched up over about a 20-minute period
  
• the FlyerTalk window takes a long time to open from the the email alert's link
  
• the content takes a long time to populate (usually associated with an active video advert panel that must finish filling before the content arrives)
  
• lately, typing away in the message box, but no letters appear until I stop typing, then they catch up
  
• getting the Database Error window
  
• (rarely) the IE window saying that it cannot display the webpage

"Sometimes..." because these don't always occur at once. When they do, they usually are obviously associated with the site. But when it's not obvious, I'll go over to another window to see if the symptoms are there, and clear the cache. Then if it's still happening in FlyerTalk but not in other sites, I at least have some boundaries on the problem, and will go back to real life, or to play on TripAdvisor, or post on this thread.

Again, any of this familiar?