As one of you may have noticed, the site went down briefly on Thursday. We’re in the process of transferring to a different host, and our webmaster screwed something up attempting the transfer. They have been soundly beaten with an appearing cane for their actions and have assured us that the site will probably not go down next time they try. Just in case, we’re delaying the next attempt to transfer to next Thursday, so that they have ample time to check settings and so that our dear readers have plenty of notice that the site may go down again if the webmaster fucks up again.
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