[rmcconachy]

The software that underpins the Cloudy Nights (CN) forums is indeed being upgraded. Last I heard, Mike Bieler (the site owner) had been told that the down time would be about two days. My understanding is that this part of the upgrade involves transferring across members' accounts, private messages and galleries along with all of the posts (including merging all of the older posts that were previously located in the forum archives back into the `live' forums). However, I believe that the reviews and classifieds sections will not be available immediately when the new site comes up, they will be re-added at some later date (I don't know when).

Declaration: I was previously a mod and admin over at CN but I was not involved in the site upgrade so I don't know all of the ins and outs about it.