The main site server crashed yesterday - which required a reboot.
Unfortunately, despite very specific instructions about which server to reboot, the tech guy rebooted the wrong one, this one, 1st. Normally this would not be much of a problem but on restart the server showed a message about moving servers, which I had to investigate and fix. The once the forums could be seen it was evident that they needed a complete rebuild, as all counts were at zero.
So for the past few hours the forums have been being rebuilt and recounted - and is finally complete. It took about 8 hours.
Apologies for the out time.
Now let's see if this post works .....