The site should speed up shortly. When we come back online, there are a lot of requests to the site that slow everything down. Some features we have need to rebuild their cached data as well and this causes an initial slowness when the site comes back online.
We are monitoring everything to make sure nothing went wrong with the release that is causing site slowness. Will let you know if we do discover anything.
eBay giving works is on our project list. However, I don't have a definite date for this. The one positive side in regards to this feature is that eBay now allows you to revise an item and add Giving Works options. This was previously not an option through eBay.
-Kevin