Pages were loading fine. Just not ancillary features like "reply" which were nearly infinite compared to my patience for loading.
Now.
No problem for me posting replies.
If it works for some users and not others, it’s almost certainly an issue with the slow user’s PC, browser, etc.
Since so many people have “issues” with their computers these days due to the junkiness of the design of the web and M$ Windows, it’s even more likely that the issues are on the client side and not on the server (more so than typical IT support issue resolution experience, where the trouble often has to do with something the user did; if it’s something “IT” did or a problem on a server, every user has the same problem).
The user’s browser should be configured to allow caching of objects, but to empty the cache when you close your browser, etc., that is, have your browser not infected with all sorts of junk, be viewing a malware website in another window while you’re posting to FR, etc.
There are many cheezball websites that try to sell junk with pop ups, malware sites that start using javascript to check out and mess up other sites you’re browsing at the moment, start opening new windows uncontrollably, etc. You’ve got to clean all the junk out that they leave in your browswer cache, possibly even reinstall your browser after “visiting” such sites, or they can interfere with other websites you browse.
FR all by itself chugs along fine.
I believe it was a recent hardware upgrade that made it now perform very acceptably as long as the user has a reasonable internet connection and machine.