I have the same problem here in Australia from time to time with the forums, I often come back later and it works OK then. I never have issues with the story side of the board.

Ditto here. Sometimes cannot get to homepage, sometimes get there and cannot get to forums but once or twice went to fiction OK.

I started having troubles at about the same time that some web pages mentioned some google update that was flawed and was causing all kinds of problems across the internet for users who got that google update. It said to remove that update or seek a corrected google update. My recent google updates have not removed that problem.