Join the room and take some pressure off the server by refreshing every 20 seconds. http://www.mvpsolution.com/tfchat/tigerforumschat.html
Posted this the yesterday, but I would imagine the load will be greater towards 6 than it was yesterday. Last time we forced the forum to close because of the refreshing and lurkers...if you don't want to kill the forum again hang out in the chat room, the news will hit there just as fast because everyone is scouring all the boards/news sites and pasting there.