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Eh, it was back up by the time I had decided to say something about it
... Well, I don't know if this relates in any way, but it's back up now, I think (?)
Edit: Well, it's acting like it's down, but it just seems to be greatly overloaded. I'm able to get on if I request the page a few times.
Not too surprising though, I mean, HS just came out, as far as I know, right?
Yep, It's up & Down like a prostitute's underwear :)
There's a pretty easy reason for why HF is suffering:
Honey-Select's release.
I was online just before it was made available to download, during, and after. It's no coincidence that it started having server issues right when it was made available by girlcelly, and thus, the lurkers and whoever came streaming in by thousands. The current version of the forum simply cannot handle this large jump in visitor activity.
I may sound pessimistic, but I don't believe Hongfire is ever going to recover from this.
Switching to vBulletin 5.x was a very bad move. This update is notorious for being a poorly-written clusterfuck ridden with bugs and performance discrepancies, and the Interwebz are full of horror stories concerning communities that were severely impacted —and even died— from the upgrade.