I hate spiny circles

Gree we've been getting long spiny circles for a few weeks now.
Shake to collect, get a spiny circle.
Go to the open a box icon, get a spiny circle.
Open a box, get a spiny circle.
Refresh your battle list, get a spiny circle.
Do anything, get a spiny circle.

Depending on your device, these spiny circles can last 8-22 seconds every time.

At first I thought it may have been my connection, but many of my guild mates have experienced the same long lasting spiny circles.

I noticed that for the last day of war we got a 40% off sale instead of the 20% off sale that we had for the first 2 days. Could it be that scores were down?
Spiny circles slowed wars to a crawl. Hmmm....maybe you shouldn't fix this. After all, it saved us a lot of gems by slowing us down.

Never mind.