The site has remained "iffy" the past few days, as others have noted. However, before this morning it has always been accessible. This morning at home (around 4.30am CST) I was able to get to FT on the third try (and when I did get through, it was running uber fast) yet it would often flake out after a few minutes.
At school today I have experienced similar problems (when it works, usually after a couple of tries, it works great - than it starts to time out.)
Thank you guys for checking into this ^^ ... For I need my FT fix even more than the coffee fix