We set out with a goal to redesign the phpBB2′s vanilla smiles for our upcoming upgrade to phpBB3. The reason our Design team set out to redesign it was simple. The two reasons are, we did not like the design of ProSilver smiles and we loved the current (now old) smiles that we were using.

So our Design team set out on the task of freshening them up. Different designs and dimensions were considered and ultimately we settled with the set we have now. You will notice that they are no longer pixelated and feature a lighter and brighter gradient to liven up our lemon styled smiles.

Here is a comparison of the old and new.

Old:

New:

Special thanks goes out to Goran, Tom and Evangeline for their hard work.

After a few days without emailing services, we’ve finally had the time to look into this issue deeply and properly configure Exim. Exim is an email daemon that we entrust our emailing with.

Registrations were disabled because our email services were down. It will be re-enabled soon. However, those who did not get their activation emails or any other emails whatsoever will not be receiving any. Therefore, those who registered in the time frame of this downtime will have to re-register. Your old inactive accounts will be pruned.

We’re sorry for the inconvenience this has caused.

We are currently in the process of moving servers from img5 to img6. The process should be seamless with the exception of our blog and support center going down.

This will automatically fix itself once your DNS propagates within the next 48 hours.

Our site is down right now due to a small DDoS attack.

ETA on fixing this 1 hour.

Title is rather self explanatory. We have fixed the issue where you get an error about “content encoding”. This happens when someone searches for something.

PS phpBB3 development is going well. Go the Dev team!

The reason why we’re down at the moment is because our LCB script went rogue and filled up all of the space available for the database. We’re currently removing those additions to the db and defragmenting it also in the process.

ETA about 40min.

We’re currently fixing an error where MySQL throws out a table is full error. We will only be down for an hour max.