Forums broken?

We are currently making updates to the forums.

I think everthing is back to normal, well at least for some.   

I've seen buttons pop in and then out again, saw something called Karma under the user names...I'm kinda curious about that one.

That was probably just Angie asserting herself as Big Dog except for Brad.

I'm curious if this forum is usually this "clunky". I am brand new to the Stardock forum; and, ever since I started using it, it takes a long time to add/edit posts with unusual issues....

Today, for example, I was barely able to create a new thread.. it took forever to post... a little while later, the forum shows that there's 1 reply made to my post; and even specifies the person who replied. Then, when I go to check the response.. there's no response. Is this due to unusually high utilization of the stardock forums?

I dunno... Maybe, maybe this is an inherent software issue with Stardock forum software? I don't see these kinds of problems with vBulletin forum software unless there's denial of service attacks or the forum is being over-utilized.

Anyone have any ideas whats going on? Maybe these symptoms happen during database maintenance?

We are in the midst of some code changes and bugs are being ironed out.