This Community has always been (among other things) an artistic one, churning out an impressive amount of high quality graphics each day. To celebrate the rise of the new forum, site staff will be hosting a competition allowing our artists to submit graphics for the forum header. Feel free to discuss the competition here, as non-entry related posts in the submission thread will be deleted.
So, the rules are as follows:
Each user may submit one image to the submission thread as their entry.
The image must comply with forum image size rules. (Hijack-Edit: It needs to be 430x79 or smaller. -Loken)
Two versions of the image must be created - one for the light and dark forum skins.
The deadline is the 6th of October, exactly one week from now.
The admin and moderation teams will shortlist three pieces, then a final community vote will be held on those three.
The winning graphic will remain as the site's header until the conclusion of the next month's competition.
As you are reading this, the forums are back from their extended holiday. Welcome, it is nice to see you back here.
The reason the forums were down was related to a series of DDoS attacks. We expect to be attacked again and no doubt the forum will fail again. When this happens, in the words of one member "Keep Calm and Carry On". The forums will return eventually.
While the forums were down, I used the opportunity to change the forum software from IPB to myBB.
The current configuration is not final and I have to install a theme that looks more like IPB. There are a number of other maintenance tasks yet to be completed as well.