Kay let's return to this problem. While the downtimes haven't been quite as long as in the past, they certainly have become much more frequent within the past week or so. I spent 3 hours working on forum stuff earlier today and the forums proceeded to have these server lapses at least 3 separate times during that time. I don't like having to completely stop and just wait while I could be working/updating important items which makes this a more serious issue than it just being a nuisance. If I didn't have Chrome as my browser then I would have had to completely restart what I was doing twice because it would not have saved what I had finished before hitting Preview or Submit. I've already heard one complaint of someone losing progress because of this while working on a rather lengthy Trials post so I would like to see this issue fixed or at least made much less frequent. As it is currently I wouldn't be surprised if these server issues occur at least 10 to 12 times a day.
EDIT: Alright so there was another one just now that lasted over half an hour...guess the problem's worse than I first thought.