After typing a message, I copy it to the clipboard. After clicking submit or preview post I can tell pretty quickly if FT is not responding. So I abandon that attempt, start over, paste what I had saved on the clipboard, and for some reason it usually works instantly on the second try. It's like you have to convince FT that you really mean it before it gets accepted.

It's happening again. :(

During the last 2 hours or so, there are a handful of such problem episodes when I refresh the FT pages I am viewing. Very annoying.

ETA: Rather than 2 hours, it's been happening all day long in Asia. :(

Yes, and that too. Often it's the 2nd or 3rd try that will go thru without delay or glitch.

Early this week I was on a business trip and during breaks I was able to get into FT easily and reliably with my ipad on the hotel's wifi. Now that I'm back in the office, it's again hit or miss. For me, it "goes down" for minutes or hours at a time rather than just a few clicks later. It still really screams to me that there's a flakey router/switch in the system somewhere. It seems to work or not based on the path your packets take through the internet, since it was different for me based on my geographical location.