Several days ago the c99p Monkey Team was assembled (see photo below), with apologies, please ignore that the Team are actually apes, but that is another tail, err tailess, err tale. With an important commission in mind, the Team and myself were locked in a undisclosed location for three days, a store of libation including a 50 gallon drum of coffee for the Team leader and several drums of banana smoothies for the coalition of the willing, willing that is, as long as the smoothies flowed freely.

...and a notification of some down time.

We still haven't heard from either of them and under the circumstances that is understandable.

Since right after the recent California fires the plan has been to raise some funds with the goal of getting some supplies or whatever may be needed directly to our friends who have been affected.

In case you haven't heard, there has been a large and dangerous wildfire in Northern California that started yesterday morning. From what I've read and seen the town of Paradise has been devastated.

https://www.chicoer.com/2018/11/08/highway-70-being-shut-down-wildfire-i...

One of our dear friends and author, hecate, lives in that general area with his beloved pets. Folks, if you pray to any deity, please do. Let us bring our collective consciousness together for his sake. Cross your fingers and your toes if you think that may help. If nothing else please keep him in your thoughts.

I've been optimizing the site code and architecture the last few days, you should see a noticeable improvement in the time it takes to load the pages.

My question is: this morning I received an email from a member stating that after a recent FireFox automatic update the text on the site is displayed in bold. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Have you seen any other anomalies that have popped up over the last few days?

Have you seen any gold coins laying around anywhere lately, because if you have, they're mine. I swear, I misplaced them and can't figure out where they are.

Thanks.

I'll say it again and in plain English.

The day this site becomes a unilateral echo chamber for any political faction is the day this site gets closed down. Period.

Some of the shit I see in the threads lately is really starting to get under my fucking skin.

C99p will be down sometime this afternoon or evening for an important software update. Hopefully the downtime will only last an hour or so.

Update: Downtime scheduled for 9:00 PM Central time.

We are a nonpartisan site, which to me denotes a diversified discussion board with no one political ideology dominating the others. It's about tolerance. It's about ideological inclusion. It's about allowing freedom of thought. It's about civility.