I never trust that, you also have to be careful with forums saying there are no new posts. As a forum can be marked as read even when there are new topics or posts within the forum. That makes it easy to miss stuff.
The board picks the one time I actually need scripting help to be down for days... dammit. I've been crying 420's name for days! Not really, but... this post needed a little drama so whatever.
Also, Mo, I just got a few "Connection Interrupted" "Connection to the server was reset while loading" messages after trying to post this, as well as a few times afterward while trying to access the index.