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Based on my brief testing it is mainly the submit and discuss-pages that are slow, not the main-page.

Same thing for me - it's about normal speed for reading, but submitting new links takes a really long time.

OK, webpagetest confirms the observation in this test (which loads this particular page): http://www.webpagetest.org/result/101215_3AQ4/1/details/