This most likely was a local thing. On a totally unrelated subject, the family informed me that Telus, one of the communication providers was dicking around things today.
Please check your Device Menager if there is installed the Microsoft6to4#.. virtual net card. If it is there and has the yellow triangle with the exclamation mark it might be the reason.
Could be a local router/hub causing problems for some of the membership because the site has been loading quickly for me both on the PC and the iPad for quite a while now.
Taking a long time to reload or go to a new page. The back button would work but I couldn't go to a new page and the Service Temporarily Unavailable page would pop up. I couldn't even log out. Lasted about 15 minutes and then back to normal.