Hi, there are two important dates at which important things will be happening on this site. These dates are subject to change, but I wanted to give you adequate advance notice.
1. September 4, 2014 - Due to extremely high levels of activity on the site, the site will likely be migrated to a new dedicated server on this date. This may result in periods of 30-minute or more downtime, though exact downtime will be difficult to predict. My web team and I will, of course, work as quickly as possible to minimize any downtime.
2. September 21, 2014 - Tagging will become mandatory on the site at this time. What this means is that if you don't tag, your images will not upload. In advance of this date, I strongly urge everyone to revisit the recommended tagging guidelines posted in the start-up posting instructions and elaborated on recently in this post.
The intent of this change is not to discourage posting to the site, but rather to ensure that your images are consistently cataloged and can later be found by others and search engines. Selfishly, I am also hoping to free up a few hours for me each day that is now spent tagging uncatalogued photos. Thanks.
Any questions? Post them below or email me.