You may have noticed that the forum was down for a while today.  Create-a-forum, who provide the forum platform had a problem with their datacenter:

"This morning at around 7:30am CST on 5/14/2020 our datacenter which hosts Create A Forum experienced a power outage due to storms in the area. Normally the backup power would kick in and keep everything online but in this case it failed as well.

This resulted in servers being rebooted and we had to fix some database issues resulting from the unexpected power loss."