Dear Downers,
The Barrow-Downs server was unexpectedly upgraded late last week, but the forum wasn't upgraded with it.
Unfortunately, it took several days to get everything corrected, which resulted in the confused forum everyone has been noticing. During the downtime (not to be confused with Downs-time, which was lacking) I was completely unable to do more than see a garbled version of the front page of the forum, and my e-mail was unusable. In fact, I am still working on getting my e-mail working.
I appreciate everyone's patience while we were experiencing these difficulties.
Let the Barrow-Downing resume!