We are sorry for the down time and slow response times. We are not being hacked, and your personal info is safe, we take every precaution to maintain a secure site.
We are a very large site, and we are constantly working to optimize the response time. For the past two weeks we have spread our servers to a larger cluster, and separated the search server from the others to speed things up. The search server caused us a lot of problems, and that is why we have had some down time. We are still working out some bugs, most notably with the main forum skin formatting, and soon will have everything running smoothly again. Rollie was also able to restore the Likes system, and the search function should be working, too.
Thanks for your patience!