Ok, first i want to ask does anyone else have issues with loading profiles? For a long time i had to wait like 3 minutes for one profile to load, then the staff streamlined it and it loaded in seconds for me, now however, i have been unable to load any profiles all day.

Edit: infact the entire sites loading really slow now for me...wasnt an hour ago..

Nope, profiles load fine to me.
But I got a 500-Error (actually multiple, because I tried multiple times) a few minutes ago. It lasted about five minutes, then it stopped.
The site doesn't seem to be slow for me.

The site's performance goes on and off, usually affecting user profiles the most and actual image pages the least. It's been like that for weeks, and I have no idea why.

I'm sure they're working on it, so don't worry.

Yeah, the 500's have been swarming me as well lately XD

Site traffic analyzers (example) have shown that the overall stress that the e6 servers run on is constantly growing due to the gradual increase in site traffic. I would expect that the administration and site team is trying to cope with these indicators from time to time.