It could likely be related to the problem with lag that they've been suffering from lately: essentially, their servers are getting old and are being overwhelmed by a rapid increase in new content, the daily backup creation takes up even more resources (which obviously isn't helping much), the site's manager (who is the only one who can make the necessary hardware upgrades) has been busy with other stuff recently and is thus as yet unable to get around to actually making those upgrades, and so the other admins have been deleting certain functions (such as the search and e-mail notification functions) and even temporarily shutting down the board during the lag periods in an effort to combat the lag. A number of posters have noted that much of the recent increase in user content has come from the BROB and CrW sections, and have thus proposed placing restrictions on time between posts in those sections (which would be even longer than the forum-wide minute-long mandatory minimum between posts) or even temporarily locking them in the hopes that it'll put less strain on the servers, at least until new hardware could be installed (which, at this point, itn's likely to take place in the next several months, at least). In the meantime, though, a lot of sacrifices have to be made (and are being made) in order to ensure that the forums at least remain in some usable state until then.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I felt that I should try to put this in its proper context so that you guys could at least understand what's currently going on.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I felt that I should try to put this in its proper context so that you guys could at least understand what's currently going on.