We apologize to our members for the downtime that you might have experienced in the past 24 hours. We attempted to upgrade the phpbb software on which this forum runs. Needless to say, we experienced several difficulties with this process. At one point we actually thought we might end up starting from scratch. You can imagine the heartbreak we would have felt if we lost the 8000+ posts here. In any event, we managed to salvage the template style of the forum and thankfully all the users and posts.

While it will be a long time before I go trying to update the software again, there were some tweaks and modifications that were lost in the battle. We will be trying to reinstall those over the next few days but for now at least, the forum is functioning.

Now it's off to sleep for a bit as we've been up all night getting this back online.