We've updated the user capabilities today, mostly refined them. You can view this FAQ. We've given more userpics to free users, and have added some special and neat features to Paid, Permanent, Early Adopter and Special Early Adopter accounts, for example, those people can mass edit the privacy on their journals which is really nice, and definitely saves time. Also they're the only accounts that can make their own moodthemes.

Paid accounts can now use up to 75 icons instead of 50. Just view the FAQ to see what features your account has access too!

I've also setup a SVN repository so that I can track code changes that I make or to revert to previous version because we all know how many coding screw ups I make :)

I've updated the Paid Accounts page which I've been wanting to do for a while. It now takes advantage of drop down menus and I've made sure there's a notes section so you can leave your username right there, hopefully that'll cut down on the emails I get!

Thanks.

Hey all, before I could post about the possibility of downtime the storm hit and it hit really hard! It's definitely a lot cooler now, so hopefully I won't be complaining about it being so damn hot! Anyways, I apologize, we had about 30 minutes of downtime there, after loosing power once, I just cut the power to the servers. Mostly to minimize corrupt software (I mean, who wants a corrupted database, there goes all your data!). Finally around 4PM EST the storm passed and I got everything back up and running.

All servers and services are now resuming normal service.

Thanks for your patience and understanding!

I'm really starting to get annoyed with the box that Cluster 2 lives on, so in the near future I hope purchase 2 more Mac minis (one for database and one for the websites that also live on the box). Of course that'll run about $1000 so we better start selling those Paid Accounts!

Either way, Cluster 2 is down and I have no ETA for when it'll be back online if at all tonight. You can find out which cluster you're on by visiting this page.

Sorry about this!

Update: We've got cluster 2 back online, but with a bit of bad news. The hard drive that's in the machine along with possibly some other hardware is going bad. Basically we need to purchase 2 new machines, 2 Apple Mac minis (one database machine and one web machine). It'll run us about $1300 which we don't have. So hit up our donate page if you want to help out. In the mean time, I honestly cannot guarantee the quality of service for cluster 2 people, we'll continue to backup the database daily, but there's no telling of when the machine might die, even with backups we have no machine to drop it on to...sorry.

Update #2: We're getting another storm -- please remember to go to http://scribbldstatus.tumblr.com for up to the minute information on Scribbld's status! I have a feeling the servers will be up and down over the next hour or so.

Please remain seated while the poor Scribbld servers take a lightning beating. We thank you!

Update 3: Cluster 2 is back online believe it or not! Hopefully the storm is done with.