Xedri's Comment

Hi Xedri, Yeah, the front screen also uses a connection to the database, for pretty much everything, the genre selector which shows the different genres requires a connection, the Recent Updates requires a connection once every ten minutes (its a fairly long (well, 5 seconds or so) process to work out the latest updates, so…

Down and Out!

Anyone trying to access the site at the sites busiest time (1am GMT) will have noticed a rather annoying phenomenon… You couldn’t. Any time you turned around there was an Internal Server Error or if you tried to login you were constantly denied… The overall reason for this is simply that for some reason the…

ATTENTION NEW USERS!

A script error has meant that any new users have not been able to access their diaries properly since creating them. This has been since some time early this morning, but is now fixed. If you had never customized your diary, you would see Internal Server Error’s when trying to access your diary, and when…

Database Upgrades

The underlying database has been upgraded to a newer and reportedly much faster MySQL version. Unfortunately, due to some technical limitations of the operating system, it took longer than expected, (about half an hour, compared to the 5 minutes it should have been!) but its now back online and should stand a lot more load…