I'm not sure if this is at all related to the maintenance, but I've been seeing some supreme slowness on the site this morning. It took me 4-5 tries to post an entry, and 2-3 attempts to load my Following page and this entry... several minutes per attempt. And half the time, I only pulled up a solid white page.

Any idea what may be happening?

(Attempt #2 at posting this comment -- solid white page first time.)