The recent increase in traffic caused some problems with the server. The integration between the news section and the forums, a temporary solution until an upcoming redesign, as well as the arrival of The Behemoth's Lair required more CPU power than we expected. In order to avoid the short outages that happened a couple of times since Thursday, I removed the dynamic content at the top of the main page. The comment, maptesting and map windows were less useful anyway because of the shortage in maps and the rate at which comments are posted, and I know some people will appreciate not having to scroll down to read the latest news. The Picture of the Day, on the other hand, is a popular feature that I might reproduce in the news section temporarily. We will be working with our host to resolve those issues as soon as possible. Thank you.