Situation Update · 2009.0703.1140 PDT
The DesignCommunity forums database system experienced serious technical damage overnight. The damaged files were restored from backups and the forums were viewable by 10:30am PDT on Thursday, July 2, 2009. Additional problems related to message posting were primarily resolved that evening, with only a few exceptions. The DesignCommunity forums are now fully functional to the best of our knowledge. Please report serious problems to "support@artifice.com".
More background details are available here, and more details on the current situation are available here.
ArchitectureWeek, Archiplanet, and GreatBuildings are unaffected and these sites have been fully available. Internal forensic work on external causes of the breakdown in the DesignCommunity forums, if any, is currently underway.
Please let us know if you have urgent questions.
Also note that the DDoS attack on our PetitionOnline site, which started at the time of the Iran elections, still continues three weeks later. Intense traffic filtering by NTT/Vertio Network Operations has been successful in keeping the site accessible since the initial five days of attack.