For the past few days we have had a series of disruptions to the website service. After a lot of head scratching we isolated the problem to a configuration setting that had been changed months ago that resulted in our site log archives being stored in an uncompressed state. Some of these files were huge, multi-gigabytes in size. As a result, our server's hard drive filled up, resulting in the database unable to write any new data. We've now fixed the issue.

This does present an opportunity to discuss the future of the website and forums. At some point, we plan on migrating to a new website framework. When this happens, we would have a new, more modern forum system. We do not know at this time if we will be able to migrate the existing forum topics over as of yet. If we cannot, we do plan on archiving the existing forums, so we can review them in the future.

We originally planned on doing this migration shortly after the Kickstarter, when we had less content to migrate. But, other things took priority, and since CoT.com worked, the upgrade/redesign was de-prioritized. This is the nature of things.The issues of the past few months however are making us re-evaluate the priorities here, so changes may be coming. I will make sure you all are kept in the loop as decisions are made on this front.