Please join the discussion that's happening over here:

http://welshpixie.efx2blogs.com/4067...5/#c114159

Thank ya much! :)

After writing the post last night, and reading through all the comments, and pm'ing folks, I'm thinking that all it was on my part, impeccable timing.

Pixie had tried the same thing I did, and it didn't work for her, but it worked for me. So she and I believe that perhaps it is server people working on stuff. II suppose we'll never know. There is a lack of communication between community leaders, and so one doesn't know when the other is doing something.

I'm not the only one who has helped in this, let's not forget Pixie, and all the other CL's here. Even all the people, ya'll stuck together like glue out there in the big bad internet world away from your home's here at EFX2. Please don't praise me, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I just got excited last night and posted about it. Even had help from Juan, Moth, and Cam to notify the masses. :)

Anyhoo here are some helpful things that Pixie said in case you missed it.

""I'm pretty sure the server people are fiddling with the site as we speak. There are still some glitches here - embedded HTML not working, and the 'templates' page has defaulted, removing all th CL-made designs.""

"I'd strongly suggest everyone take this opportunity to back up their blogs. Change the 'blog entries per page' to a few hundred, load your blog, select all, copy, paste into a notepad file (you can try MS Word but it might crash). There are still some bugs and issues going on here that aren't fixed."

so there's that, the floor is open to ya'll now. In the meantime, keep all those other blogs, and I'll get everyone linked accordingly. Write all your usernames and passwords on a piece of paper so ya won't forget it and have to start over again with the blogs you just created.

**Edit** I'd also like to point out the great post that Libertine just made. Please go on and read it and contribute to the conversation please.

So I've finally figured out the problem, I've dabbled about in the control panel off and on this whole time debating and trying to figure out what the hell went wrong.

It was the IP addresses. I'm not sure what made it different, or if anyone added an IP address to the list (the CL's with access to the main CP) That's the only scenario I can paint with that, because I can't figure out why else it would have done that. There were several wildcard IPs too, which block a whole range of IP's. So I removed ALL banned IP address's, and then came back to check things out and it let me login.

So, it's back alive, and wow what a pain in all of our asses. I am worried though that the spam that was blocked via IP (dunno why) will come back, so the CL's need to stay on their toes with that. I'd suggest not banning any more IP address's at all, but rahter painfully delete every setup that spam makes here.

So yeah, that's about it, and welcome back folks.