We are currently experiencing a flood of requests from bots scraping the forums. Unfortunately it has gotten to the point where it is negatively impacting the site. As a result the forums may be slow and you may periodically experiance an error message.
We are aware of the problem and apologize for the inconvenience.
There seems to be a problem with the skin changer. I recently changed the skin to "Fire Pokémon". It worked once, but as soon as I left the page, it changed back to default