Hi all! This is just an update regarding the recent issues we've experienced (over the past 2 days). If you're not inclined to read on, you should just know that there's going to be a 2-hour downtime window tonight around 12:30 am for us to take a few backups.

So anyway, a couple of days ago one of our web servers suffered a small hard disk crash. This happened to be the web server that stores the site images, however, so it being suddenly unavailable caused some random problems to develop, including difficulty loading the site, images not loading, and avatar saving problems, etc.

Fortunately, we were able to restore from an images backup, and we were even able to recover some the data that had been "lost", so there was no long-term effect to the site at all.

I'm happy to say that in this case everything worked mostly as planned - we were able to move the images share to another server and run everything. We had a few hiccups with the aforementioned problems, and next time we'll know what to watch out for!

That said, tonight we will be taking the site offline to take another images backup. Our artists have been working hard lately, and we want to protect their updates!

-Alex