The performance of this site has been excellent except for the last month or so. Votes and posts are timing out and I even lost a post while I waited and waited for it to submit. That can be very frustrating if you spend 20 mins or more typing out a post only for it to disappear and you have to redo everything. I'm sure it's effecting new users like yourself that don't have a whole lot of history with good performance on this site.
Thanks for comment.