Okay, so I thought this was just an issue on my part, since I've been having spotty internet for the entire day. When I was finally able to get here, I noticed a large gap between certain posts (on the order of four whole hours).

This got me to wonder whether the site was really down for four hours.

So, here's my question if the site was really down: What happened? Did a system-wrecking error occur? Or, did you just do some routine maintenance? Or, did the NSFW threads overload the servers?

After all, I'm curious.

Yea, for around 6 hours according to "is this website down?" sites I consulted - just search for "vgchartz down" in google and you'll find several sites that track these things.

Ahem

Normally, I'd say the thread should be locked as a duplicate, but perhaps a dedicated thread would be better

Woof! (I agree, ConeyG!)

once a week it goes down at least for me.

Ah, sorry for that. Now, go ahead and lock it~

(Wait, I read your reply again. I now understand why this thread is kept unlocked.)

It was down, but allowed me a lot of time to read up on the "5 guys" stuff to see what people were talking about elsewhere.

Yeah, it was down for quite a while. 6hrs according to the website isitdownrightnow.

http://isup.me

It was down for me, but I did get a email notif that WoW has messaged me while it was still down for me.

For some it probably was down for much shorter time.