21d 15:22:31 until the OGMW forums will transition to fully read-only mode. Read more here.
For consistency with the new site, OGMW now accepts email address as a login credential in addition to user name. User name will eventually be removed, so we recommend getting in the habit of using email address going forward.
I would suggest a work day during said work day cause it will reduce the load of people wanting to log in instantly. Reasoning behind a work day is that people are less likely to be actively posting while at work which means less people trying to log in. The primary server 500 issue will likely be less prevalent.
Next suggestion that I personally experienced cause I know how to by pass server 500 issue was that I was stuck with being unable to log into myth weavers with my email and password. it kept claiming my creds was invalid. combo that with a server 500 issue and people reloading to trying and get different results when they log in only to get slammed with a server 500 error again...
basically vicious cycle if they can get past the server 500 issue they are stuck with being unable to log in again. Which some times leads to them going through the cycle again. Nathan suggested that my creds might have been miss entered somewhere some how.
If it was a lot of people getting creds issues then that might explain why there was a massive back up that was not resolving.
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Don't sweat the issues, guys. The site is awesome, and a little suffering over this change on our part is nothing compared to the hundreds of hours of free play time is worth it!
Thanks for all the work, guys. Sorry it didn't go better this time. Sounds like you did a lot of prep work beforehand. Sometimes it's like that. You'll get it next time.