The thread-viewing error had now been repaired (by me), so everything should be back up and running.
Let me explain what happened, however:
My webhost, Netfirms, has been experiencing performance issues lately (or so I soo). Every so often, standard MySQL queries return code 28 errors (server out of memory), meaning that the server does not have enough RAM at the moment.
When the server experiences something like this, any query can damage a table index- and that's what happened with the private message and post tables- the indexes were damages.
I have contacted my host via e-mail, but, unfortunately, I haven't gotten a reply yet.
I had to fix this mysql by using a use_frm repair command- it worked, at least this time
I may have to switch hosts, sadly. I currently have 20 Gb of disk space for $10 a month, plus each domain for $10 a year. I can't afforfd $500 and $1000 yearly plans, however, so if you have any host recommendations, please post.
However, if the site grows, perhaps some donations will be able to get us a dedicated server...
Anyway, I'm very sorry for the downtime, for it made the site look really bad. I'll do my best for it not to happen again, but the memory issue is currently out of my control...
Thanks for your patience.
Adam
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