We just had hundreds of bot spam in the General Abuse and Coding Help threads. I have changed the restrictions, previously anonymous people could post but only in the permanent threads. Now, they can't post anywhere. 

Happy New Year and thanks for all you do here Metl 

We were down for about a week due to the recent PHP vulernability discovered. Big thanks to Sleepwalkr who has upgraded the server with the necessary fixes. 

Suspected that was what happened but good to be back again.