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Skinner almost always says (paraphrasing) "Not slow for me."
I don't complain any more, it's useless. IMHO. I feel your pain! 
Usually refresh the page and it loads again. I haven't had a complete outage in a while.
I suspect it has to do with with ads loading on the page.
LOL if DU is slow I hit discussionist and it loads fast.
Some factors might be if you have a lot of threads hidden by keywords or ignore, its going to take more processing to load.
Also the lag could be from 3rd party ads, which Skinner does not have that much control over. If they are slow to load the whole page will hang, huge threads also load only half way sometime.
Fear not I'm sure skinner is working on DU update 4 for the election year. I suspect that could be a reason DU3 not a big priority.
Peace Justin
Every reload gives a chance to serve.
If I was project based I would have a bot constantly reloading to be on a jury.
a bunch of keyword and people on ignore. Its a lot of database calls and stresses the system.
Thats my guess. Lets remember DU is likely one server, not a distributed system like Facebook or google.
Add to that someone who is on dialup loading cat pictures from the lounge, with a slow system, the server is busy serving their slow requests while your waiting.
I agree it could be faster but it is what it is.
A fun place to waste time!
Dont stress my friend.
