As part of ongoing background maintenance, during the past few days all the Manband Archive's database code (there's quite a lot of it) has been upgraded from using MySQL modules to using PHP Database Object modules. This is a pre-emptive measure as at some stage in the relatively near future (IT release time moves more like geological time than real time) the MySQL modules in PHP are being deprecated.
At this point the Forum pages are not affected.
If you're wandering around the Archive and spot any pages behaving badly, please do let me know about it.