What's going on at the moment is that basically the forum is useing 3 or 4 dedicated server clusters, and one of them is having serious issues intermittantly. We are trying to keep it up rather than loseing a whole other server in addition to the ones already down. The forum component itself loads inside a page generated by one of the primary site servers. Those servers, which also drive the rest of the site, are not haivng issues.
So what happens is the top page section module, which either displays "welcome whoeveryouare" or ads is loading fine, then the forum page load triggers, and depending on what cluster you are on, may or may not load fine. Illia is working on it
In addition to all this, we are still at this point on the old ISP. The new ISP is located on the west coast. so we need to physically get the servers over there somehow. I vote for chartering an airplane, assuming I get to ride in it, but at the moment we're still ont eh crappy mom and pop ISP connection, and down 2 servers from where we were pre merger. The dozen or so new servers are being delivered to the new ISP, not the old one, so until we move, things will continue to suck.
Sorry.