thats definitely an issue. Taking a look into it

it loads for me in like one second

Can you double-check with mtr or other traceroute where is the biggest network delay?

You're probably a) getting a cached response much *much* closer than me, but 40 seconds? Wtf?

mtr is only 200ms average away, to 216.86.152.210

plurking a response can take 5-10 seconds

https://gist.github.com/... # Headers, POST, Firebug time-breakdown data, of a 10second request

If you want a sure-fire way to get slow requests, open "edit profile", set your country to "new Zealand"

and then iterate through every available region. 1 in 4 will take ~10 seconds

and the other 3 will take ~600 ms to return *2 characters* , '[]'

Probably that's indeed because of these two IPs you've figured out