The forums will be offline until further notice due to thousands of “users” trying to run searches and create accounts. The server hardware that runs the forms is unable to handle the load, and since it’s not a critical resource we’re disabling them until it passes.
UPDATE: we had re-enabled the forums, but the traffic flood eventually returned and we were forced to disable them again. We are exploring permanent rate limiting for the forums so they just go offline whenever it runs out of resources since we aren’t concerned about forums uptime.