e621 is a large online archive of furry art. Twitter is for site status updates only. To contact us join our Discord or email management (at) e621 (dot) net.
We're deeply saddened by
@Dragoneer
's passing. Losing the founder of such an important community space affects us all. Our thoughts are with him, and we hope he rests in peace.
We wanted to take a second to recognize an awesome member of the community for creating socks inspired by e621’s Hexagon theme and mascots.
We don’t make anything off these, but we still wanted to recognize just how amazing we think they are. <3
We’re planning on launching the next generation of e621 next week - on March 4.
On the 4th we’ll take the old site down and do the necessary migrations and upgrades.
Closer to the 4th we’ll have estimates on the downtime we’ll need to finish the upgrades.
I’m also going to say this now, even though our plans haven’t been fully settled yet:
The new version of e621 will be open source.
What our hope is that we can get the talented developers in the community involved and help make the site better than it’s ever been.
Here in a few minutes we’re going to take e621 offline briefly to install some updates and security patches to our servers.
It will take no more than 30 minutes, but should be done sooner than that.
For those of you worried about e621 - be it the upcoming legislation in the US or our unfortunate outage that happened as HentaiHaven was shut down...
We’re doing just fine. In fact, just yesterday we discussed plans for some major updates we’re going to work on in the new year.
For context:
We’re migrating the site’s content over to a new server with significantly faster storage to help with response times when the site is busy. We already did the initial migration last week, this is just to catch up on things that have changed during that time.
Since a lot of you are asking: No, it’s not possible to use the old layout on the new e621. The server backend is significantly different from the old site.
That being said, we’re not going to sit still. We’re taking constructive feedback on how we can improve it on the forums.
Regarding the multiple outages over the last 12 hours:
Our datacenter lost power overnight and our servers did not reboot cleanly.
We’re just going to do the planned upgrades now and bring the site back up when we’re done, at this point.
The upgrade that is taking a bulk of the time scheduled is a major software version leap for the database.
…which involves dumping the existing database, moving it to the new server and importing it. For a site of e621’s size, that’s quite a bit of data to throw around.
There is currently a person going around claiming to be doxxing artists with personal information obtained from e621. We don't store any personal information beyond basic details (email, username, and IP address). IP addresses are only used for moderation. (1/2)
It’s worth noting that when we’re ready to launch, a few things will happen:
- We’ll announce it here and on the site a week or more in advance.
- The old site will be taken offline so we can migrate the content and database into the new system. No existing data will be lost.
For those curious, here are a few of those upgrades:
-The primary database server is getting newer CPUs, twice the RAM and NVMe-class SSD storage.
-The primary content server is getting double the storage - it’s been all-SSD for the last year.
We don’t have a firm ETA on how long the migration to the new site will take, and we’re not going to rush it.
It could take a few hours, it could take all day. We’re not sure just yet.
When we have more information, it’ll be posted here.
Funnily enough, this server maintenance is entirely unrelated to the issues a lot of you are seeing with other sites right now. Just a weird coincidence.
If you are being contacted by said person ignore them and please don't hesitate to reach out to us via management (at) e621 (dot) net and we'll help as much as possible with any questions you might have. (2/2)
If any of you are having issues with e621 being slow or not loading, Cloudflare reported an issue with their network that’s under investigation on their end.
The beta for the new e621 is nearing its end. We’ll be launching it soon!
If you haven’t had a chance to take a look at the new e621 and give us feedback, there’s more information here:
Our sincerest apologies for the extended downtime.
The maintenance and upgrades were planned - the power outage wasn’t. :(
Speaking of upgrades, they’re going well - and on schedule!
If you’re using e621 on a phone or tablet the layout will be different than you’re used to.
If you don’t like it, just scroll to the bottom of the page and hit “Disable mobile mode support”.
It’s also in the Advanced settings page.
Our hosting provider is doing some maintenance on their network in a couple hours.
e621 will be down for 20 minutes starting at 6PM GMT-7 (two hours from now).
It’ll be back up after they’ve confirmed the needed maintenance is finished.
We’ll bring the site back online after we’re done testing, but please be patient.
Speaking of patience, we really appreciate you all hanging in there over the last day. It’s been a roller coaster, for sure.
We’ve tentatively brought e926 up for testing purposes.
If you’re interested, please help us by poking at it and letting us know if anything weird is happening.
Similarly, if you DO like the mobile layout, but you don’t like the thumbnails cropped to fit squares? You can change that, too.
Just head to the Advanced section of your settings.
The outage is currently being looked at.
Our load balancer is online but the network at our host for that specific server is not. Waiting on a response from them.
e621/e926 are now back online. If you still see the maintenance page give it a few minutes, the cached record for DNS resolution still needs to expire.
We're going to be performing a wide array of long overdue hardware and software upgrades - and doing it all at once so no further prolonged downtime is needed for a while.
Aaaaand we’re back! Again, sorry for the downtime - we’re going to take a look at what happened and see if we can prevent it from happening again in the future.
Something worth noting about the gallery view for the mobile version:
The beta of the new e621 is a fork of Danbooru (what the original e621 was based on), and that mobile view was designed by them.
We can certainly try and improve it, but we’re working with what we’ve got.
Here’s a reminder for our new beta:
We’re accepting all constructive feedback on what doesn’t work and what could be improved on the beta’s forums.
If we don’t know it’s broken, we can’t fix it.
If any of you are new to the beta and looking at it from your phones…
We do have settings to disable the cropped thumbnails in the mobile layout, or even completely disable the mobile layout.
How you want to see and browse e621 is up to you!
If you’re running into bugs, please do us a favor and report them on the forum so we can look through them.
Contacting us directly via Twitter or Discord isn’t helpful, because those things will get lost in the flood.
Apologies for the issues with e6's images this evening and the delayed response. Taking a look now and will be getting the site back to full functionality ASAP.