Originally Posted by
jiejie
It does seem to be better when I access during what is the middle of the night North America time, which leads me to believe it's some sort of overload or bottleneck issue.

Ditto. It also seems like North American daylight hours on the weekends are
slightly better than the weekdays, but not exactly stellar.
Case in point: I hit the submit button on this post and it took close to a minute to get posted, and hitting the Edit button afterward took close to 30 seconds to bring me to the edit screen.