You may have noticed that I've been having some difficulties with the forum lately. They've been going down a lot recently. We thought it was because MySQL was having difficulty keeping up with the number of sessions table inserts possibly because search engine bots didn't have user_ids and so they were creating dozens of sessions in short amounts of time. I made the bots some user ids, but the forum still goes down. Sometimes a single IP seems to create many sessions very quickly (one person created 1700 sessions in 150 seconds). There is an update to the forum software that I attempted to get today, but getting the update brought the forums down, so I was overly hasty to get it back up and other problems arose once it came back up. I'm going to attempt to update again tonight when the forums may not be so busy and I won't feel rushed.
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