FR is in real trouble with no signs of resolution in sight. No change will eventually deliver no hope.
BUT, you are so right! To a lesser degree there are problems happening elsewhere on popular sites for our side. It behaves like a virus on my internet but it isn’t so as you say something, may be sun flares, but something IS going on.
I get better connections to lighter traffic sites, so capacity must be enormously strained. Every soul is online all the time.
I am assuming FR traffic is much lower than it was before the Guiliani Purge four years ago. Is that not true, is traffic that much higher? And the computers are much faster now as well.
My other complaint was around MSN Games which is not likely to be a Righty site. It is a pretty bad site in general at all times though.