If you take a look at 24 hours chart at any source you would like you'll see right about the time forum went down price started to drop by the hour.
Is it true ? But I find too hard to believe this because traders will not be having time to check forum (I'm not going to see they are not at all checking but definitely not while trading).
I do see some discussions about latest news are here but not coming up with decision helping hot news, some crypto based news sites are faster than forum members to give latest crypto related events. If this is true, why prices of bitcoins need to go down when our forum is down. I just see it is a coincident, nothing else.
Still I too suggest people to donate to keep this forum more secured and versatile against any threats.