I've been working on things lately, as mentioned by Lantis in the innuendo-filled post about "Finishing 5.5.".

The next phase of the program will result in me likely requiring the shutdown of both site and forums in order to ensure the updates go smoothly and no one loses their posts.

I will do this after the Game Developer's Conference is over.

*folds arms* FINE THEN!


*whispers* Don't work too hard, Ixz.

How much advance are you going to give us before the actual shutdown?

How long do you estimate it will be shutdown?

Well, I went without Magness for six days already, what's another three?

Perhaps I should have mentioned that the Rainy Day forums will be online during the shift.

Notice that all posts made on that forum will not carry over to the current forum, so don't post anything too important over there.

I'm anticipating a work time of 1 or 2 days, depending on if the server does not implode.

One reason I need to do this is due to the cost of running the forums. I don't think too many people know besides Lantis, but the sheer volume of our forums (over 110k posts) is causing our bandwidth to lick the top of our allotted monthly allowance.

One of the new changes should help with this.

Nooooooo!

Well, ok than!

wow.. 110k posts and we don't even have the spam hammer anymore o__o