We'll be working on problems here for most of the weekend it looks like, so be patient and be kind. :)

Here's a list of known problems.

1. Site going up and down. Working on this, software optimizations will help but really, we are limping along on old hardware at this point. New iron is on order! UPDATE: we're limping a lot less now, thanks to Piper's efforts at optimization even with the wounded server we are still running.
2. Garbage characters. This should be fixed now, let us know if it isn't. UPDATE: We found a few more and fixed those too.
3. Missing stories. They aren't actually missing. A few dozen recent posts need to be moved to where they should be. Don't repost unless asked to, please. UPDATE: so far, only one story has had to be reposted. We're working on getting the rest of them properly indexed in the database. That's what happened to them, two of the index tables could not be restored affecting about 150 stories over a two or three week period in late Jan./early Feb. Progress is being made.
4. Missing comment counts. A mystery, because some of them are there and it doesn't have apparent logic. We'll work on it when we can. UPDATE Some of these are back, we will be recovering more of them in the next few days.
5. Missing tags, categories and author labels. This is a toughie, but we think it is fixable and we're working on it. This was one of the index tables mentioned above. We are doing what we can but at sometime we will probably have to ask authors to go back and retag the affected stories. Right now, we're concentrating on getting them associated with their authors and in their proper sequence in any series.
6. Search is disabled due to slowing the site down. As a temporary fix, we've provided a Google Custom Search form which will do a Google search on BCTS as default. There's also Category Browser

Hugs,
Erin, Piper, Cat and the Crew