There do seem to be some problems at the moment, and not just tonight. I think Mark was talking about transferring stuff to a new server a couple of weeks ago, maybe it’s something to do with that. A couple of times the forum’s been down for a while, like earlier on. Safari’s also crashed a couple of times on me but I dunno if that’s related to the site.
In fairness though; STW forum is used by a lot of people, and will have quite a number browsing at any one time I’d imagine. And the archives must be enormous! Over 2 million posts I think! Must be a fair amount of data. And I think STW host the site on their own machines. Must be a bit of a task, anyway.