I've had so many problems connecting that things time out more often than not. It has taken more than 50 seconds most of the time to connect or open a thread, or a reply, and I frankly can't sit around for hours waiting on a slow server. I know that the problem isn't my computer, because I don't have any problems when I open other tabs to other sites.
The double and triple posts are a pain also!! The most recent server upgrade sure did break what wasn't broken to begin with, apparently.