We are sorry about the last days' problems on our web site which caused repeated outages, of shorter or longer duration.
The issue apparently is an inconsistency with the forum's MySQL database that makes the internal connection drop once in a while. While we still are researching the root cause of this, we have rebooted our server and for now, all is well.
Stay safe and bring home new and exciting photography,
Birna
on behalf of the NG Crew