*Tuesday, December 06, 2011 7:06 PM http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/reportabug/thread/5fe04b2a-226d-4285-ae29-d650b0753fa6 Over the past few days the forums application has been experience availability issues. At this point a root cause has not yet been determined and the team is working on keeping the site up while at the same time investigating the root cause so they can be addressed as soon as possible. Until all the issues are addressed users on the MSDN, TechNet and Expression forums may experience periodic errors, slow response times and key features like code and image insert have been temporarily disabled. The Forums on the Microsoft brand, namely the Partner Private forums and the MVP Private forums are currently offline until we can safely enable them without impacting the rest of the application. The team is working non stop on the issue and will continue until it is resolved. Thanks for all the previous suggestions from some of our community members and for your patience while we resolve this matter. Be sure to check back here for updates daily on this issue until it is resolved. *Special Note for members of the Microsoft Partner Network* Microsoft understands this interruption to service causes great inconvenience to Partners and is working to resolve this issue. Microsoft apologizes for the interruption to service. For urgent requests in English please email your technical product question to pngfd@microsoft.com and our support engineers will begin working on your issue on a best efforts basis. *Monday, December 05, 2011 11:06 PM* Forums for Microsoft, MSDN, TechNet, and Expression sites have been experiencing issues since our 12/1 release. Until the issue is resolved users may experience intermittent error messages or slow page loads. The team is working on the problem but at this point we do not have an estimated time for resolution. Check the Forums Issues forum (http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/reportabug/threads) for periodic updates. We apologize for the inconvenience.