i noticed the same thing last night, other pages such as google or yahoo loaded fine but eccie would take several minutes to load then several more to select a forum or a post.
not saying it was, but it behaved like a denial of service attack. more likely it was simply very brief network issue either at the hosting site or elsewhere on the internet. could have been a router issue, DNS, bandwidth overload/spike, or several other issues including the host server itself having high cpu usage briefly. possibly a nightly database backup temporarily caused the database to run very slow. these days a common way to back up databases is a "flash copy" where the database is frozen for a few minutes while still online while a disk to disk copy is made. much faster than the old days.
the issue only last about 10 minutes for me, then all was back to normal.
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