Randy: I have seen announcements posted from time to time but they haven't always corresponded to the extremely slow or down times. I'm getting timeouts on my browser waiting for pages to load fairly frequently. It's not just Buzz but other forums, too. (But most commonly happens on Buzz.)
This (and my earlier post this morning) is not meant to antagonize at all - just trying to help make you aware of problems so that you can address them when time allows.