I was about to edit my post and say that I never noticed it during the neon beta or on the old version. As for using the UK proxy, that's fine (and I do) but it would be nice to be able to use the site as I used to without the additional work (it's not much, but still).
tweedledum - I don't see why you are so rude considering a) it's not your site and b) I'm voicing a legitimate complaint directly on the site concerned, and in the correct thread. As you can see above, I'm not the only person who is having this issue, this being one of the reasons I posted (to check if it was just me or more wide-spread). I did figure it was not an issue in the UK because there would have been more complaints about it before now.