All right -- wish they could've notified by e-mail as I hardly look at the announcements and couldn't get there anyway when I couldn't access anything... :sweatdrop: But I have found the announcement for maintenence! Forums were offline for quite a few days, so if you couldn't access it either, it wasn't just you.
Official TopicIt mentioned in there that if you're still seeing red Xs for some of the avatars on the forums, then to clear your browser's cache. I did it and now it works fine for me.
This drove me crazy though... *sighs* I started to miss the forums. Anyone alive out there?