Was a server level issue. Everything appears to be working now.

*Golf Clap*

My heartfelt thanks.

Just a thought .. not trying to get under anyone's skin. Dumpshock is a wonderfully free resource for all some-odd 18,000 of us. If we each paid a dollar a year, would that buy a more reliable server?

for 18.000 a year, you could buy one sever for every half year O.o

well, we estimate only 1-2000 of you are active posters/lurkers at any time...

The admins have already expressed a dislike of asking for donations, so no, it wouldn't.

Edit: the dislike is stronger than I remembered! Turns out that the actual quote was something along the lines of "will shut the server down before doing another fundraising drive".

~J