the forum was down around 20 hours before too
Giving Connection Problem and not able to access the forum
Same here. It was down about a day ago. Theymos is currently making some changes to the forum and fixing things up so this sort of downtime is to be expected though:
There will some periodic downtime over the next few days (a few hours in total) as we get everything reconfigured/settled. A few things might be broken. Tell me if you see any bugs.