Who are they and why are we always waiting for them when a page won't frickin load?

 

That is the ad system for the site. We are currently undergoing massive upgrades to make everything load faster including tripling our bandwidth and adding several servers. By the end of the year, this site should be much faster

 

Good to hear.

Any plans to get rid of the 12am EST slow down?

 

That's due to the server database being backed up... that will never be "solved" per se since evom will ALWAYS back up it's massive database.

 

Download Firefox + Adblock + NoScript if you want to surf with no banner ads or unauthorized scripts.

 

Firefox is FTW X 10!

 

That's not true. It will be solved with the new system in place.