Hi all,

Apologies to everyone... I've just lost you your 'Unread posts since last visit' status.

As some of you may be aware, this morning there was a period when the site was offline due to a database problem. We basically ran out of user connections due to hanging queries that appear to have been caused by corruption of one (or more) of the database tables.

To try and stop this (and the other database corruption problems we have experienced in the past) from happening again, I am in the process of implementing a more advanced automatic repairer within the main body of the forums codebase. Unfortunately I'm not as familiar with SMF as I would potentially like to be, so some of this is a little trial and error (mainly getting the optimum location for the auto repair code), so if the board has problems over the next couple of hours, please bear with me.

Athena