UPDATE: Issues on DD Over the Past Few Days and Where We Are Currently

UPDATE:
If any of you users notice additional bugs on the site, feel free to let me know in the forums here or PQ me.

Hi everyone,

As you're all probably very well aware by now, we have been experiencing major site issues on the Duck over the past few days, all of which were directly related to our attempting to switch over from the old (current) version of DrunkDuck to the new design, which we've been discussing for the past couple of months. So obviously several issues arose when we attempted to make the changeover, which if you attempted to access the site over the past few days, you clearly know about.

Our programmers have spent the past few days trying REALLY hard to address the issues and get the bugs sorted out, with the two biggest ones being slow/impossible load times for pages and comic upload functionality. Part of the reason we kept the site live for so long is that we believed both issues may have been directly related to the increased traffic load on our server when we made the site live. Couple that with the fact that periodically throughout each day, we would think that we had figured out a solution to the load issues, and the site would work fine, only to have it slow down again after a small period of time.

I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused to anyone who is a member of the DrunkDuck community. We've since reverted the site back to the old and currently much more stable version of DrunkDuck, and it will remain that way until every issue associated with the new site has been resolved. We tried to redesign DrunkDuck based on its current code base, which we have now discovered (the hard way) is impossible. Our plan is now to rebuild the site from scratch using a much better/modern/stable code base. Additionally, if and when we do implement the new DrunkDuck, our implementation process will be as such that all users will have access to and be able to beta test the site in its entirety before going live.

I'll also make a forum post on this and address questions/concerns there.

Thanks.