Yeah, I was on the forum Last night, too, when it went down. I just received this cool new avatar from David, and I tested it, and it worked, and I was really happy.
Just when I was about to post more stuff, the forum went down.
I don't think they announce when it's going to go down, at least not that I know of. I just kind of thought that it was a random problem... but I could be wrong.