If I was an IT nerd then I would say there are 2 issues:
1. Site hosting issues - most likely bandwidth coming into the data centre being choked (technical term)
2. Some shitty Internet connections of some of the forum brothers
Site issues are happening more frequently at my end as well but I know that the site owner does this for love not money so I just suck it up because the forum keeps me connected to vmx while I navigate another shitty work week (work sucks).