I know with the increased traffic TES forums has been a difficult place to be lately. However when I went there about five minutes ago I got this error.
404 Not Found
The requested URL /forums/ was not found on this server.
I know what the error message means as well, usually you get a "Maintenance" or "Server overloaded" error. I thought it was wierd. If someone else brought this up, I'm sorry
Yes, the forums keep going down. With the game about to be released there are so many new members joining that the server can't cope. It's been happening on and off for a couple of weeks now. Sadly I expect it'll keep happening for a while.