You guys are so totally amazing. There is just no way we can thank you all enough for supporting us and this gallery.

First off we would like to send a special thank you to tolkienfan37 for putting forth a challenge. He said he would match every dollar up to $250 that was put in between April 27th and May 3rd. Well, he's certainly going to have to make good on that challenge thanks to all of you who donated and well surpassed his challenge goal! So give yourselves a pat on the back.

Our final total of donations that came in was $1088.93! We'll be adding Tolkienfan's $250 to that, making our grand total $1333.39. This total means we have enough to pay for May and June's server payments and the server switchover. This even leaves us with only needing $123 for July's server payment! Way to go everyone!

If you'd like to see the breakdown of the donations that came in, check out [This Post on the Old Forum] and [The Last Post on the New Forum].

Oh, did I mention that we have a nice new forum? Well, we do. One that you won't get anti-hacker errors on. And here it is - y-galforums You'll also be able to find the link in mine and some of the other mods signatures.

For now we have decided to run both forums concurrently so that if you cannot access the old forum you have the choice of using the new one right now. Eventually the old one will be phased out entirely, and we'll notify everyone when the old one will be shutting down.

Please be sure to thank and send some love to fablespinner, as it was her generous donation of her server to host the new forum on free of charge that allows us to have it.

We invite you all to join y-galforums and see what the new forum has to offer. You'll find that it's:

1) MORE STABLE & SECURE
2) MORE CUSTOMIZABLE - several themes are up already for you to pick from and NerdOwl can add more if requested. If there's any features you think the board will benefit from then SMF has many add-ons that NerdOwl can explore to see whether the feature is possible
3) A memorable domain name - y-galforums.com
4) CHATROOM
5) No need to request access to the 18+ stuff. You'll automatically have access as soon as you register

Again, thank you all so much. You have no idea of how much hope you've given us all here on the staff that Y!gallery will be here for years and years to come. You've humbled us all. Thank you.

You guys rallied when we needed you the last time. We've got a very generous membership here and we can't thank you enough! Everyone has been so totally amazing, but we continue to need your help, this time to stabilize the gallery.

Right now we're just a few weeks away from the gallery slipping into the bit-bucket and winking out of existence. The deadline is May 21 for our next server payment, and until we get ownership transferred into our hands, and build up a little cushion under us, we'll always be a just few weeks away from going black.

That's a pretty shaky place to be.

So we're calling on you, our wonderful members, to give us a hand. To find out how you can do that, [GO HERE] and follow the directions.

If you're not already a member of our forum, you can join up quick and easy. You'll need to be a forum member to see precisely how you can help out. You can also check out our brand new shiny widget [HERE] to see how we're progressing toward our goal, what our goal is, and what it is for. We'll be sure to keep it updated fairly often. Please note: If you see code rather than an image, make sure you allow html in your forum profile settings.

Also check this [CHALLENGE]. Will you accept?

We've got a very hungry kitty right now and you know what hungry kitties are like!

The Staff and Your Fellow Members Thank You In Advance.

Hello everyone!

We know it's been a while, and we thank everyone profusely for their patience, but we are currently still working on getting things settled with the site.

We will be making a new Softlayer account and purchasing a new server. The reason for this is because Asiandude does not want anyone able to access any of his personal information on the current account and server, since Softlayer is unable to wipe his information. This is entirely understandable. Once this is done, the site will be switched over from Asiandude to us and he will be officially retired as admin and owner of this site.

However, we do need your help during this transition. For information on what you can do, please see [THIS POST] on our forum. We know from the past that we can count on you guys. We're a special community here that always comes together when needed.

We'll be sure to keep everyone updated when things are being switched over in case there's any downtime.

Just one more minor note: If you post TV headed people to the gallery, please be sure not to forget to add the Robotics filter. Thanks!

Hi everyone.

I was recently talking to out techs, and it seems that the RAID that drives the operating system of Y!gallery is starting to fail (this was the only hard drive set that wasn't replaced last time). Our server company can flip it over at no charge to us, but that means that we will experience some downtime for the RAID to rebuild.

This hard drive swap shouldn't take more than a couple hours, but since it's the OS drive, this means the site will be completely down, which means we won't even be able to put up a maintenance page. However, we'll keep everyone updated on the Y!gallery Forum, so feel free to check there while the site is offline.

Expect the site to be down this coming Friday, April 15th, from 1am-4am CST, unless we are told otherwise by the server company.

Hi, just wanted to post a quick note regarding our Forgiveness program. We had a total of 10 applicants this year. Half of which have been green lighted for having their accounts unbanned. Two must meet certain conditions in order to have their accounts reopened, and then they too will be able to return. We've just sent out the last of the emails to all persons who have been accepted. Their accounts have now been unbanned and we're very happy to welcome them back to the site.

I'd also like to promote a service that Shiauko is providing free of charge. Anyone who needs help cleaning up their images so they don't violate rule 9a, can PM or email Shiauko at the address on her profile and she'll take care of that for you. Thank you, Shiauko, for helping out your fellow members!