Good news! (and some inconvenience)

Well, it turns out that Megh unexpectedly managed to carve out some time in her schedule in order to work on the site! There's a software upgrade that we hope will fix the long list of bugs that have bothered us, including the various review difficulties and the mysterious unopenable categories. Megh is going to back up the site in case of glitches, then work on getting the software updated and the bugs ironed out. YAY!

The downside, because there really is no such thing as a free lunch, is that the site has to stop receiving new submissions while Megh is tinkering with the site, because the one time I didn't shut everything down while messing with the site, I got bitched at because an author's story went kerblooey. Since I don't like being bitched at, and I also don't like fics going kerblooey, we're closing as of right now, and will reopen as soon as Megh has everything finished. Current ETA of reopening is a week from now, but this estimate may change one way or another, depending on how things go. Probably your first indication will be when there's a news item here from Megh saying, "Yay, it's finished, tell me if it's still broken."

Our apologies for the lack of notice, but we thought it would be better to go ahead and get the work on the site done while the time was available. Thank you in advance for your patience, and we hope you come back and see the new and improved site next week. :)