Tom. And when I checked I was informed later that the engineers were doing a quick deployment for the forums. If I had known earlier this was going to happen I would've posted an annoucement, but this was not a scheduled deployment and done at the last minute.
Thanks for reporting it and sorry for the outage during that time.

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