Site slow?

[june gloom]

Is it me or is Doomworld especially slow today? At first I thought it was my internet but everything else seems to load up quickly, but Doomworld takes ages and a couple times just wouldn't connect at all.

 

Some of my friends have mentioned other parts of the internet are slow as hell too, including Discord, so maybe there's, I dunno, a backbone issue going on?

[DNSKILL5]

Site fast

[dasho]

Did someone pick up the phone while your modem was connected?

[MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai]

Door stuck!!!

[Plerb]

Doomworld has been loading normally for me.

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

Back in the 2000's, some websites, like ones that listed cars for sale, or websites that offered people searches, were purposely slowed down in one way or another with fake loading screens and such ("Please be patient! We are conducting a personal background check that may reveal shocking information!") in order to appear more trustworthy to people who couldn't believe that a search that returns hundreds of results only takes a couple seconds in reality. They thought that results being returned so fast meant that the website was fake, so the people in charge of the websites actually went and really made them fake. That's what's happening here - a bunch of fake motherfuckers playing with our minds and prepping us for brainwashing. Gamers rise up!