Dear Silk Road community, A combination of bad luck, bad timing and lack of preparation has led to our forums being down over the last 72 hours or so. I am terribly sorry for any trouble this has caused you. The main market is equipped with a semi-automated backup and redeploy system to minimize this kind of down-time, but I hadn't gotten around to setting the forum up in that way, and this is the consequence. The cause of the downtime was not security related, nor was it caused by a malicious party. Sometimes technology just breaks, and because of the constraints from the nature of our business, it can take time to recover if proper precautions haven't been taken, or don't work as expected. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, so hopefully we can enjoy each other's company even more now that we've had some time apart. - -DPR