Rattledagger
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Updated technical news:
Note, this doesn't mean the servers can't get overloaded by all users trying to connect.January 4, 2005 - 18:00 UTC
We determined the increased database load (mentioned in the previous note below) was due to two indexes we added last week. Yesterday at noon (20:00 UTC) we stopped the project to drop these indexes - a procedure we expected to take an hour, but ended up taking twelve! The servers were restarted at midnight (08:00 UTC) and everything is back to operating at top speed.