I don't know if it's coincidence or not, but I was having this issue and when I turned off uBlock (it wasn't supposed to be enabled, but new computer = no filters yet) the forums started loading much faster. It may have just coincided with one of the fixes, but maybe try disabling any adblock or script blockers you have running and see what happens?
Definitely worked much faster now (less than 5 seconds).
We've seen some big improvements overnight - hopefully you guys are noticing too. We'll be continuing to monitor and tweak today.
I hope these bumps are smoothed relatively by Masquerade because the long load I'm still running into for that initial thread open is highly annoying.

when it doesnt load, it doesnt load but when it loads, its fAST
also it loads much faster on my lappie than my phone, probably seconding the 'ad-blocked' thing as a reason

This. I've had quite a few boards hang on me this morning, but when they do load, it's fast as hell.
It does seem that the HA's are dragging now though, and creating that ever lovely jump lag down the whole page.
Sure it got better today, but everything remains terribly slooooow (15-20s to load this page)... except for a few seconds, every now and then, where it is truly lighting fast.
I tried disabling Adblock - did not notice it was enabled at Subeta - and saw no improvement. Donation corner still took me over 30 seconds to load.
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