Not sure if this has anything to do with anything else, but CDPR was also hit with a ransomware attack in the last days:
https://www.wired.com/story/cd-projekt-red-ransomware-hack-cyberpunk-2077-source-code/

Yes, but notice it's supposedly this was only CDPR, because, supposedly, the servers for CDPR and GOG are separate. Now, I don't know for certain, but that smells to me like GOG is doing the typical corporate thing of downplaying the damage by not telling us one way or another. If they tell us we're compromised, we'd be pissed, but if they say we're fine, we'd sue if it turns out we weren't. And gog sure as hell isn't going to say "we don't know." This is why it's a big deal.

The forums here seem to work equally well as the Steam forums in my experience. I'm pretty happy with them.

The forum search has been borderline useless as long as I remember because when you type a space in it, it also looks for the said space, but in the form of "%20" code instead of an actual space. Which makes it completely useless for anything other than single word searches. Not to mention that the results are completely unsorted and vomited at you in pretty much random order.

The forum replies is, I'd say, somewhere about 70% success rate in accessing it for me. If the first try gives the bear, the second try usually works. But every try takes 10+ seconds before it either succeeds or fails. Been like that for a pretty long time too, but unlike the search, I remember that it used to work without issues.

The forum is slowly but surely falling apart around us. But it seems GOG simply refuses to touch it in the slightest way for the fear that the house of cards would crumble completely. I honestly don't remember the forum changing in a positive way during my 4+ years GOG career. So we are stuck on this sinking ship which will go down eventually. That will surely be a fun day.

The load during sale events creates even more stress on the already struggling resources. The traffic increases ss Gog grows, but there is little evidence of any forward planning for the eventual obsolescence of the existing assets. I won't be surprised to log in soon and find the forum unavailable.

Just to nitpick: I don't know that profile pages count as a forum function at all, but even if they technically are, I definitely wouldn't count them as a basic one.

That could be very well the case, keep an eye on things for now.

Hasn't changed pretty much since the beginning really. But considering what's been done when they did change things, nothing done is the lesser evil. The question is whether they'll at least keep it as it is or at some point say it will no longer work with some newer codebase they have for the rest of the site and have it go the way of the mixes, since the people who knew anything about the old site code are long gone.
This too, definitely. Whenever there's a major sale, the forum takes a solid hit, and lately it seems to start before the sale, which seems to indicate that they redirect resources, giving it much lower priority to allow as much as possible for the parts that generate money.

About 30% it seems just reloading the general threads to refresh i get the error bear page....

Yes, I created a thread and I couldn't find it for some reason (it wasn't showing in the General Discussions page). I don't understand how this site function any longer (and apparently I also don't know how Galaxy works, nor what is its purpose).

Yes, the forum failing is normal around here. But recently (over the last months) it seems to have become even more frequent. I see the GOG-bear quite often. Trying to see recent replies, for example, leads to a 404. Sometimes simply accessing the forum leads to a 'too much traffic' page.

I guess time didn't improve the forum and GOG didn't either.

The GOG forum needs an update badly.

It does , it even shows my rep buggy , why is there - ?

Is there an alternative way to view Forum Replies? I see the purple dot that says someone replied to a post, but every time I go to Forum Replies it gives me a GOG Bear error. Is there any way to fix this?