Planned maintenance: December 2 (10-15 minutes)

I'll be upgrading the database tonight (when this post is about 10 hours old) which will result in the site being down for approximately 10-15 minutes.

During this time, I'll also be pushing out several security updates, a few minor fixes and improvements to the forums and the rest of the site, and more optimizations to keep pages loading faster and faster. Also in this release will be the ability to send people private messages from a link on their profile, and several fixes around PMs in general.

Thanks for your patience. Happy worldbuilding!

(I'll be starting the maintenance shortly.)

Yep, the blue box is incorrect for all users right now. I'll have it fixed shortly.

Me too! :P

Maintenance has concluded. Please let me know if anything seems off or broken and I will investigate.

You'll also notice PMs function a bit better now, especially in the dropdown when selecting users. Additionally, you'll see this new button on user profiles that will allow you to start a conversation via PM with that user (or open an existing one if you already have one):

You'll also see a bit of a styling change on the forums, helping users better find where their unread notifications are coming from. You'll now see a little bell icon next to each messageboard with unread threads that you are following. By default, you follow your own threads, threads you respond to, and threads you're mentioned in. You can change these preferences in your forum settings.

Example:

@Riorlyne I think so. One way to find out! (Will be mentioning you elsewhere shortly :P)

D'oh, looks like I need to dig more into mentions. Doesn't look like they're working quite yet. I'll spend some time tomorrow investigating and see if I can get it working shortly. Thanks for the assist.

Will do. Thanks! :)

Thanks, everyone.

As a follow-up to this, it looks like we had some kind of hardware failure last night (no lost data, but it looks like several servers weren't being used overnight). I've asked our host to look into the issue and will be working with them today to get everything hunky-dory again.