The site has now migrated to Xenforo 2. If you see any issues with the forum operation, please post them in the feedback thread.
Due to issues with external spam filters, QQ is currently unable to send any mail to Microsoft E-mail addresses. This includes any account at live.com, hotmail.com or msn.com.
Signing up to the forum with one of these addresses will result in your verification E-mail never arriving. For best results, please use a different E-mail provider for your QQ address.
For prospective new members, a word of warning: don't use common names like Dennis, Simon, or Kenny if you decide to create an account. Spammers have used them all before you and gotten those names flagged in the anti-spam databases. Your account registration will be rejected because of it.
Since it has happened MULTIPLE times now, I want to be very clear about this. You do not get to abandon an account and create a new one. You do not get to pass an account to someone else and create a new one. If you do so anyway, you will be banned for creating sockpuppets.
Due to the actions of particularly persistent spammers and trolls, we will be banning disposable email addresses from today onward.
The rules regarding NSFW links have been updated. See here for details.
As long as you’ve written it, and you put it on the appropriate side of the SFW wall, you’ll have no issues. If you’ve posted it under a different name elsewhere, ideally mention that from the account over in the other place so that we don’t think that it’s plagiarism.
Last winter was a pretty poor showing - November through March only. The winter before was ok, but I worry that I’ll keep getting less ice and have to learn watercross to ride a sled on her…
We would really rather you didn’t, as ‘do you have permission from the author’ can be an interesting subject. It’s not *technically* against the rules with permission… but it causes headaches if there’s questions of ‘do you actually have permission’ what arise.
The site will be down from approximately Noon, CDT (1600 UTC) to 8 PM (with the possibility of a longer outage should the migration be slower than expected. Yes, there’s a banner for this. People who exclusively use mobile in the vertical position won’t have seen it. If you want to talk about it...
So, you know how most websites will purge the cache of outside images every so often, especially if a thread/page/whatever hasn’t been touched in a while ( could mean a month, could mean a year.) QQ is set up so that that just… doesn’t happen. Ever. This leads to the cache being… somewhat large...
The semi-official way to poke about half the staff off of the site is the official IRC server. The unofficial way to reach another third (me included) is the QQ Fate/Grand Order discord server…. And as for why the server outage is longer or shorter when this happens? If an admin doesn’t poke it...
There’s a number of things going on, but one of the main issues is that due to the XF2 build in addition to the live site, the partition that QQ is currently on is substantially more full than usual, to the point the daily server backup kicks things in the head and offlines the site. This would...