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You probably noticed already that some things were missing. I am taking some extra precautions and disabling high load / bandwidth functionality until the NBA Draft is over. These include:

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Sorry about the inconvenience, but hopefully this allows the forums to remain smoothly during the draft where in past we've had some downtime.

I was about to come here and ask what happened to my avatar lol. Thanks for the notice!

Are you guys currently using Load balancers & CDNs? For some of our larges site we utilize load balancers (Hardware/HA Proxy), facebooks HHVM to optimize PHP, and at Youtube we used Memcache for mysql databases.

I posted a complaint about a site crash during the trade deadline. I'd like to officially thank you for addressing my concerns and trying something different. It does make all the difference to a person if they know that at the very least, issues are being acknowledged and addressed. Cheers.

Things were not perfect but they went pretty well during Draft Night.

I didn't have any issues on draft night, so thanks again for the extra preparations.

Not a problem.