March 4 1AM - UPDATE

If you've found us again, welcome.  This site should be fully functional, feel free to go about your business.  The regular URL will catch up to us as soon as it can. 

Three cheers for the Admin team!  The known issues have changed, so I'll list them again.  The extraneous characters have been fixed and are no longer an issue.

• Links - Several of the forums and FAQ entries will have broken links.  This is because we're getting rid of the /drupal in the move.  This is another item that will be manually fixed.  If you find yourself in need of one of these links, you should be able to acess the page, by removing the /drupal from the URL.
• Menues - Until the DNS catches up to us, some of the hard coded menu links won't work.  Use the search box or the drop down boxes at the top of the page, in the interim to find your pages.
• The Active Moves Block will be gone, PLEASE start using the drop down boxes at the top of the site.  I promise that you'll love them once you get used to them.  They're a brilliant way to navigate the site, they just take some getting used to.  Trust me, as more games begin on the site, those drop down navigational boxes will be a life saver.  IF...you seriously have an issue with using the drop down menues, I'll make the Active Moves block an optional content block, but it is very admin intensive and as the site grows will be difficult to keep up with.  BUT, seriously, if you can't live w/o the static links, let it be known - I'm not unreasonable.
• Broken Images in game moves.  After the site is moved, KL will import the image database, and those should be repaired in short order.
• Smilies are also broken, we're aware of the issue and it's on the list.

March 3 - UPDATE

We're doing final checks of the mirror site, to make sure there aren't any other lingering issues that we don't know about.  There were some problems with getting the database ported over and KL has spent a lot of hours working through those issues.  Assuming we don't find anything else, Dave will initiate the DNS transfer later today.

Here are the KNOWN issues, please read this section.  If you find something NOT on this list, please send me a PM or post it in the forum.

1. There are extraneous characters in a lot of the blog entries and game moves.  The database port didn't interpret some characters (quotes, apostrophes, ..., and a few other minor characters) correctly.  And in place of those characters, it inserted the extraneous characters.  This ONLY happened in instances where items were copied from Word, we know that these two things don't play nicely with each other...and unfortunately it's causing us some extra work.  This is going to be a manual fix, and other than showing up 'new/updated' items in your disappearing content block, shouldn't affect you at all.  We'll correct the active game moves first.
2. Links - Several of the forums and FAQ entries will have broken links.  This is because we're getting rid of the /drupal in the move.  This is another item that will be manually fixed.  If you find yourself in need of one of these links, you should be able to acess the page, by removing the /drupal from the URL.
3. Menues - The first thing on my list after we get moved over, is going through the navigation menu, verifying all of the links, and recreating the ones with broken URLs.  The Campaigns Menu under Content Directory, will also be rebuilt with the new links.
4. The Active Moves Block will be gone, PLEASE start using the drop down boxes at the top of the site.  I promise that you'll love them once you get used to them.  They're a brilliant way to navigate the site, they just take some getting used to.  Trust me, as more games begin on the site, those drop down navigational boxes will be a life saver.  IF...you seriously have an issue with using the drop down menues, I'll make the Active Moves block an optional content block, but it is very admin intensive and as the site grows will be difficult to keep up with.  BUT, seriously, if you can't live w/o the static links, let it be known - I'm not unreasonable.
5. Broken Images in game moves.  After the site is moved, KL will import the image database, and those should be repaired in short order.

March 1 - UPDATE

The move should be completed by tomorrow, hopefully today or tonight.  If there is an interruption, please read the site maintenance page that will come up.  I will post the temporary link there that will allow you to access the site while the DNS takes the time it needs to update our information.  This is only a temporary link, and you will be able to go back to our main address shortly.

Alright, our hosting issues have come to a head and we've decided to move sooner, rather than later.

I just wanted to give you a heads up so that, if you came to the site and we weren't here, you'd know what was going on.  We hope to do this the right way, with minimal downtime.  ...but we may have ruffled a few too many feathers, and if that's the case, we don't know how they will handle our account.

Worst case scenario, the site may be down for 36-48 hours.

I'm hoping this will be the end of our troubles and down time.  Thanks so much for your continued patience and support!

China
Site Admin