The forum was down yesterday afternoon. I think it was unplanned. Crash? Don't know. It's happened here before. Prior to last summer it was more frequent, the past year it's been very stable. No big deal, it happens to the best sites.... and it did
About a year and a half ago China did spam the forum for several days. They'd post literally hundreds of spam posts in minutes. Court and Co had it sorted within a week or so.