The board will be down this evening for a couple of hours.
Saffi saw this notice on the SMF forum today:
System Wide Maintenance July 25, 2008
We will be taking the entire system offline on July 25, 2008 around 7:00 CST PM as we do some network maintenance. Expected time frame is one to three hours of work.
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Things will be back to normal pretty quick, so if you experience problems getting on the board tonight, bear with us and try again later, Thanks for your patience.

And thank you Saffi for letting me know about this!
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