The specific error message is coming from Cloudflare, the issues started the last couple of days of August and then the site went down for a while September 1st.
Around that time it would periodically load the odd page but most of the time you'd get the Cloudflare error page telling you the server hosting the site was offline but you could view a cached copy if you wanted. Or you could hit their link on the top right and try to load a live copy again.
You'd also get a "verification" thing as the Cloudflare service was apparently trying to mitigate DOS attacks. This was all sort of going on at the same time.
It has been ever since that chain of events happened that I've found the board to be "off" in terms of periodically not loading. Today was the first time I've seen the Cloudflare page since the outage.
And in case you are wondering who Cloudflare is:
https://www.cloudflare.com/
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