Database issues, hopefully fixed

As you may have experienced, we have had a few database related problems the last hour. This was due to locking situations when data is updated and retrieved at the same time, something you won't notice until there's a lot of traffic and new submissions going on at the same time. We have implemented a fix for that now, and hopefully things should run smoother now.

We are very sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Server work underway

We're currently doing some work with the servers to get more servers from V6 into the V7 cluster. We're trying to affect the site as little as possible while doing this, but you may notice a few "glitches". These are temporary.

Expansion Packs filter back

The Expansion packs filter that got missing in the transition to v7 is now back on the downloads pages. Enable it by opening the "Advanced Search" in the right column (make sure Full Screen mode is disabled), tick the "Only My Expansions" box, and hit the Show Results buttons.

In the advanced search you also find a lot of other useful options. Some of these are specific for different types of downloads. For example, in the Residential Lots section you'll find a lot of filters for price, num bathrooms, num stories etc.

Post feedback on the downloads search functionality in general, and the re-enabled Expansions pack filter specifically, as comments to this post.

More servers added

We have now added more servers to the server cluster which TSR v7 runs on, and together with some optimizations this should have improved the speed of the site. However, we still have more servers to add and more optimizations to implement, so we expect the speed of the site to improve considerably down the line. Stay tuned for updates on this.

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