Due to a glitch on my USP's part, the forum hasn't been available for a couple of days. Sorry about the inconvenience!
The upside of this is that the site should now be running on faster servers. For the moment being, things do in fact appear to run more smoothly. Here's hoping...
Actually, I was a bit worried myself as I had no clue what was wrong! Turns out that the server software has been upgraded, changing some settings in the process and switching the forum off. It might have been useful if I had been informed of this
But I'm glad we're up and running again.