With everything as slow as it’s been, it’s hard to tell whether the server is overloaded or if it’s down completely. I was unable to access the boards at all today during what are normally peak hours–about 11:30am-4:30pm PST. I then noticed that the forums showed no new posts for threads between that approximate time, so I’d assume it was down for all.
You know, I wonder if this was an outage for multiple different servers. AOL (hey, shut up) was down, or at least quirky, all day too, as was LimeWire.