Am I the only having trouble here?
Your not a gold member bro --- what you see is different then what gold members see --
You don't need to point that difference out to me, as I was gold for years remember?
Ok, so when I saw the notification that I had a new alert I moused over it like normal and it wouldn't open the preview like normal, but just the progress bars moving and nothing for about 20 seconds, then finally came up and showed I had a quote from you.
I'm trying to help you understand exactly what some others are seeing, to make it easier on you to figure out what people are having problems with.
It seems it has nothing to do with being gold or not, but specifically a response time issue from somewhere, be it FA_O itself or somewhere in between the FA_O servers and some users along the route. (though like I said, the trace route can look fine and the site is still unresponsive at times)
