It's not just me experiencing the slowdown and it's only bigsoccer (other sites work fine.) Any word on the situation?
Forums continue to be slow, off and on. It doesn't seem to matter whether it's 2:00pm or 2:00am, I encounter the busy signal (and my Supporters Club friends encounter VERY slow response) pretty much every day for some part of the day.
It is slow because they want you non-paying members to pay for using this site, it has nothing to do with the number of users online.