I encountered another brief outage tonight, from 8:34 PM to 8:40 PM Pacific time. The same "Database Error" message came up that I'd seen during the two long outages.

I'd saved the link that someone posted (downforeveryoneorjustme.com) and already tried it out once when the forums were working normally. This time it reported:

"It's not just you! http://forums.psychcentral.com looks down from here."