Just so y'all know, the issues Re:my accessing the forum have been resolved without a hitch at this point. Mods: if this is your doing, then you have my eternal gratitude.
Though frankly I think I've got a pretty good idea of what the problem was by now, and it may've been nothing to do with this site at all. After tinkering with my speaker system, I found out one of the cables in my new monitor was plugged in the wrong way and fixing that seems to have immediately rectified the issues I'd been having. Still kind of peculiar how only this forum was affected, though...
In any case, I'm certainly glad to be back!
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And I'm sorry for alleging the mods might've directed some kind of hack at me. That was uncalled for.
In fairness, I was going through a bunch of disruptions in my life at the time (including major home renovation and recovering from a fairly bad cold), so this was kind of like the straw that broke the camel's back.