Nope the problem was that due to the DISH Network Satellite Failure the amount of users online jumped from 1000 to 6000 and brought the server to a crawl (the current server is rated to around 3000 people online at once... not 6000 online at once.)I suspect adding that was what screwed up the forum this afternoon.
It blocks existing text though (at least on Google Chrome).As far as the new bar on the bottom it is something we are testing...