Just a note for those of you reading who frequent the GN forum ( Read more... )

I've a long way to go, and much to catch up on in the regular chores side of things and other lapsed activities and projects... but I finally feel as though things are starting to come together a bit ( Read more... )

I occasionally get some really weird emails to my goth.net webmistress alterego.

Case in point:

I am the owner of the JesusX.com domain name and I am writing to inform you that the domain name JesusX.com is currently for sale on Ebay. Given the nature of your website / organization I thought that you might be interested in acquiring the domain ( Read more... )

It's quite amazing to see some people have a very tenuous grasp on language and meaning.

Case in point:

I received an email to my Goth.Net webmistress alter-ego asking for a link exchange. Which is fine, that happens a lot seeing as it's a pretty popular site. I really have to wonder whether people actually bother to read any site content before ( Read more... )

The GN Forums are down right now. PreZ is installing the latest version, and sadly a lot of the old skins don't work with the new board, so that needs tweaking as well as a bunch of database things, as they changed a lotI'll post when it's all back up and working again. Hopefully it won't be too long, but it's likely it'll be at least a couple of ( Read more... )

Goth.Net should be working properly now. All mail that was sent to any GN accounts in the last day will most likely be delivered within the next few hours, depending on how fast the originating mail servers retry delivery.

The forum is also live again, and the sanctuary IRC server should no longer be suffering from netsplits.

PreZ is working on GN right now. It seems that there's an issue getting the machine back up again, so he's on the phone with the co-location place to get things sorted out ( Read more... )

Anything on Goth.Net that runs on databases is down for a while, which for most people will mean the forums are down. People with webspace might notice that their home directories are inaccessible. Email also will be down, anything sent to your GN email address during the downtime will be delayed ( Read more... )

Site's back.

Yes, the site is dead, including everything that runs on that box.

prez is looking into it at the moment.

I have no idea what exactly is wrong with it, or when it'll be fixed. However, I get the feeling that you don't need to expect it to be soon.

Updates will be posted as they're forthcoming.