(25 Sep 2014, 5:26 pm)Dan wrote Wasn't the fault of MyBB - 'twas Bihira on this occasion!
Seems to be an issue once per month whereby their servers go down for approximately 10-15 minutes.
Everything else was fine for me (even Flickr - surprisingly!)
Possibly to patch servers vulnerable to shellshock.
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/650