Good to see you back.

Now, my experience since you're back online.

The site is loading for me but this evening (Chicago) I occasionally get the delayed loading of the site and it was typically a random CSS file like:
https://www.wptavern.com/forum/clientscript/vbulletin_global.js?v=385
or
https://www.wptavern.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/css/frontend.css?ver=1.0

I've been flipping between forum and WP sides and into and out of posts and categories. There was no pattern indicating when it would hang. I got a few instances of the site hanging about half and hour ago but now the response is prompt and as I expect.

Let's hope it stays that way :)