I have had a history of problems due to the type of PCs that I use to get onto this website: company owned but not supported, for purposes of allowing for outside 'recreational communications'. Those problems were frustrating on their own - space errors, posts being wiped out or mangled and having to re-enter information several times, unactivated re-sends. So recent problems did not disturb me immediately, until I started to get a recurring database error page, on different levels of access, including entry into UT.
If I hadn't received return notes from SeanTrans and then Ed007Toronto after submitting e-mails, I wouldn't have known that my problems were also plaguing others.
The return notes indicate heavy traffic, combined with server problems and some background testing. I suppose you will get further detail on this thread, or elsewhere, momentarily.
Follow-on Note: It took me more than an hour to get back on after initially making this post.