I can confirm it happened. Likely some form of issue with the network at the actual server making HTTP requests fail.
I was using firefox (FireFox is my main), and the same issue happened today for me. LOL Nah not rude xD truthful in my opinion.
Xenforo is either unable to communicate with the database, or the database is having some problems. Either way, I doubt it will be long before fixed.
Yes this can happened when your internet gets trotted Or your PC minecraft data base get unexpectedly changed. This could happened to if you have to much data being used. Here just in case CypriotMerks and I'm no expert so yeah sorry