Has anyone else had problems since the layout changed with forum pages taking ages to load?

sometimes yeah but i always thought it was my connection, i think its improved slightly as it was really slow for me when it first came out.

sometimes i do think the old forum was faster

If anything, I think its faster for me.
What is your internet connection like?

Connection's fine ir might just be a coincedence and i've logged on recently when the server has been on a go slow or something.