Were it CPU intensive it would be so on the client side and have no affect on the server, and fwiw, scrolling back and forth quickly I saw no cpu spike (fairly

Were it CPU intensive it would be so on the client side and have no affect on the server, and fwiw, scrolling back and forth quickly I saw no cpu spike (fairly new MBP, granted). It's more likely that the site has been taken down by being posted on sites like HN/reddit/digg/etc (it was easier when we could just say it was "the /. effect").