Probably just a lot of heavy traffic or ddos-ing, though the forum has just recently switched to Cloudflare so maybe there's some transitional issues with that because it's been on and off and laggy all day for me as well (as have a lot of bitcoin related websites/exchanges).
Yeah, I've noticed that, I've been visiting
isitdownrightnow.com and I am seeing a lot of exchangers in the list, thank you for the info though, I will be just reading the thread about it.