After I posted above that the server itself had never been down, it did indeed go down, for good. A good chunk of the delay has been in configuring and restoring onto a new server.
We will post a full report/post-mortem on what happened as soon as we can. We're still working on clearing this up, which is taking priority.
We will also give free First Class membership (some to everyone, more to those who were First Class when this started) as soon as we're confident that the remaining site issues won't interfere with your enjoyment of it. Ultimates, we haven't forgotten about you.
Known issues at this point:Approximately 650 uploaded photos were lost. These were uploaded between the last successful offsite backup and the old server finally being switched off.
For staff, some of those photos were in work queues, so you may see an empty queue claiming to have several photos in it. Ed is on the case.
Emails from the site (password reset, etc.) are not being sent. Ed is looking into this.
Copyright bar on photos is not generating properly. This is relatively minor; we don't modify the original uploaded file, instead generating copies for viewing, and the photos you see will correct themselves a day or two after the issue is fixed. Ed doesn't understand that stuff, Stefan is fixing it.
There are multiple hard-coded links throughout the site that will now break. Ed is chasing these down. We believe that the site code is now fixed, but existing forum posts and private messages may still contain broken links. These will need a bulk fix, which is irrevocable and hence needs research.
Full update when we can.
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