So, what changed?

[FuzzyBoots]

The site was down for quite a while for the changes. Was this to fix the email subscription issue? To plug holes against spammers? Random outage?

[Fildrigar]

We applied some fixes to the web software behind the scenes, but it appears to have not worked. Rather than keep the forums down longer while we research other solutions, we've brought them back online. Please report any new weird behavior here.