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Stratelier has already explained the specifics (thanks!), and I would just like to add that it is only one of the many advanced search query features supported by Sphinxsearch, the software product behind the search feature on the mainsite. You can learn a lot more about the other advanced...

Maintenance has been successfully completed within 10 minutes.

We will be performing site maintenance at roughly 11:00AM EST today and will need to restart some servers to complete the task. The site will be unavailable for roughly 15 minutes during this period.

Registration has bee re-opened.

Registration has bee re-opened.

This should now be fixed.

Overlapping issues. The mainsite has been DDoS attacked, again, while the forums have had a disk space related issues causing them to randomly throw out errors.

Thank you all for the feedback. The issue has been with Cloudflare CDN, which they confirmed has now been fixed.

Thank you for replies. The prime suspect in this appears to be corrupted cache entries on Cloudflare's side. If you could test this out, I would appreciate it. Take the direct image URL to d.facdn.net, that doesn't load with a 522 error, and add a random query string at the end of it like...

Could you please tell me more about your internet connections. What kind of internet are you using? Cellular, public WiFi, residential, etc? Is your internet connection shared with other people who might also be FA users? Are you using a VPN or a proxy to access the site? Due to the wave of...

SQL dump import speed depends on too many factors for any estimations of its completion to be accurate. Different tables have different sized rows and a different amount of them. With big rows, you are limited by the throughput of your storage device, with small rows - by the speed of individual...

Import progress 95%.

Import progress is at 80%.

Import progress is at roughly 50%.

We appear to have encountered some rare case of undo tablespace corruption, or something else which is essentially causing individual database queries to lock waiting on each other's semaphores which never get released because of this circular dependency. This only appears to happen during heavy...

Replied to the FA journal. I do not recommend anyone making use of this addon in the mean time, or you might get temporarily auto-IP banned for botting / content scraping.

ETA 15 minutes.

We have encountered unexpected server issues during routine daily maintenance.

We are finishing up with the operating system updates.

Just an update, the filesystem checks are still running.