On Monday 19th October we are planning on updating the forum to the latest version of the software (Misago). This will give us the ability to have notifications as well as bringing us up to date on the underlying stuff.
In addition, we will be adding the url forum.the-photo.org as the default entry to the forums. Over time, we will start to retire "dprevived" but it will still be around for a while.
We are not sure how long the upgrade will take, it should be a few hours only. But if you can't get through and want to contact me about it, the contact form the-photo.org/contact.html should work.
cheers
Alan