Just recently, the East Coast of the United States had a terrible storm; often pings plummet. I'm from the East Coast and my ping is 85-110 when it's usually 25-40. Normally a WiFi "site" is down / underpowering. I believe this will correct itself, although I may be wrong, and they did change hosts.

Dang! +1 Gonna have to go with the second option, though. Hovering over someone's name is far easier than typing a command. But, as you said, may be too much work. :D

Management did a fantastic job with the new reset. It totally brought it a ton of new players and a new player base. Well done by them, they killed it!