We have decided to advance some of our major bug fixes and changes ahead of previously scheduled dates over the next two weeks. We are still planning to save the larger changes to include many new sections and functions of the site to incorporate in a more rapid succession at a later date.
As some of you know, we had concepts and coding snatched by the owners of another site a few months ago and this caused us to prefer to not introduce certain unique features periodically and rather offer them in a group making the concept harder to steal or duplicate.
In these changes coming ahead you will notice a lot of improved functions, new features, security enhancements and bug fixes.
To make some of these changes we will need to shut the site down for from 1 - 4 hours at a time depending on how things go during the uploads. In most cases a 24 hour notice will be given that can be found in a notice at the top of your home page conveying the date and time. In some cases we may not be able to give so much notice and suggest that you watch that area and the shoutbox on the home page regularly to look for any sudden needs of closure. This means it will be helpful to refresh your homepage more frequently so as not to miss announcements of closures within shorter times.
The announcements also will give you the tip to compose longer blogs or comments off site and paste them in so as not to lose your work.
During these down times if you are in the site depending on where you are you may get various notices. We don't want you to think you are being singled out or removed from membership which the notices might could be interpreted to suggest if you are not aware of what is going on.
After each upload, introduction or feature set update, we will be testing. You may at times have the word test on some of your items or see them around the site during that time. These posts will be removed after testing is complete.
Thanks for your kind understanding and patience as you experience our growing pains. We hope it will be very worthwhile in the end. 
