Is it just me, or is anyone else having this issue? Oftentimes when I try loading the forum, it will hang up right around where the ads usually are. Sometimes it will take minutes for the forum to load, if it loads at all.

I know it's not a browser issue, because it happens on all three browsers installed on my computer (Chrome, Firefox and Safari) as well as on my phone (Safari on iOS 5).

Yes, it has happened to me a few times as well. I thought it was my computer?

Nope. It happens to me all the time.

I'm having the same issue as well and it's always when ads from casalemedia (http://casalemedia.com) are loading. The problem has been so bad that last night I had to shut my pc down and restart it three times because of it.

I think that happens more often because of the blog headlines ticker rather than the ads. The ads usually time out quickly if the server isn't responding. When the RSS feed box hangs, that slows everything down. I've had to disable it several times.