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The Young Writers Society will be going down for scheduled maintenance on (adjusted to your local time).

The downtime is required so that I can easily convert the character encoding for various database tables from utf8 to utf8mb4. The difference between these is that utf8 can only store 3-bit characters, while utf8mb4 can store 4-bit characters. In practical terms, utf8mb4 can store emojis but utf8 cannot. Thus, this maintenance is necessary to enable emojis.

The aim of this is to reduce the number of post submission errors so that when you submit a review or post with an emoji in it, the submission goes through rather than failing.
  





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Iggy says...



Nate... what have you done? You’ve given @niteowl more weapons to use. There will be no survivors.
“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then."
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