so glad I've found some threads about the forum problems.
whenever I open
http://forum.worldoftanks.com, I get the maintenance page.
but I can still view my own profile and open forum topics - although they were mostly locked.
I thought it was because of the maintenance I thought was going on but obviously there is not such thing as new topics/posts keep appearing.
found the log-out log-in solution on some other thread, and finally; I can now open the forum page [
http://forum.worldof....com/index.php?] and threads are no longer locked.
I still the get maintenance page when opening
http://forum.worldoftanks.com though.