The pattayatalk server has been having problems today, and continues to be sluggish or non-responsive at times.
This is the result of a "helpful" automatic update that the server system is pushing to pattayatalk...it's using up all the resources on the server, it appears.
I was told not to interrupt the update, and so it will just be a matter of waiting until it finishes before the server is back to its normal self.