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Special Miniwing Drawing
There will be an announcement later today, but both of you that are subscribed to the dev notices will get special advance notice:

Based on user suggestion, we're doing a special third Miniwing drawing this month. We'll be putting 1000 tickets on the marketplace in the next couple weeks at random times. Each one gives you an equal chance in the third drawing.

(We thought this would be a fun event to try for October; as always, we appreciate your feedback, questions, and complaints in Site Feedback.)

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Miniwing Counts Still Glitched
We're still (re)building the backup server that we'll need to bring the counts back online. The counts should be up-to-date and correct by Tuesday if all goes well knock on wood.

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Slow Page Loads
We are tracking down a problem with the CDN that is causing pages to load extremely slowly.

UPDATE: Looked like a problem with a new firewall -- Ops has turned it off and site traffic looks to be returning to normal.

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Code Live
- CarbonPhyber has done a wide variety of HTML cleanup; it shouldn't have caused any problems, but if you notice something acting differently today please let us know in BR&TS, and be sure to mention the browser you're using.
- Cleaning and tweaking some notifications in MyGaia

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Advertising Changes
You'll notice the black bar that says "Advertisement" above all the ads is going to change in the next few hours.

We'll explain it in detail in the announcement, but the TL;DR:

Buying an MC has historically turned off ads. We've expanded this to AutoCash subscribers and anyone that purchases anything for 249 GC or above, and you'll have control over whether your advertisements are turned off or not.

If, after we roll out the changes, you run into any problems with ads showing when you think they shouldn't be, please let us know in BR&TS. If you have comments or feedback about the idea of extending ad-free browsing to more users, please let us know in Site Feedback.

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Bug Fixes
- Ad opt out not working for some people should be fixed -- log out and log back in and it should work correctly. Sorry for the inconvenience.
- CarbonPhyber pushed out a fix for the dropdown arrows in MyGaia.

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Site Outage
We've fixed the cause of the temporary site outage. Sorry for the scare. No data was lost.

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Inventory Change
Store item preview in inventory is going live pretty soon; it'll be at the bottom, way below the fold. You may see some temporary visual glitches for a few minutes.

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Invisible Car Glitch
As part of our modern-day emulation of Sisyphus, we've released changes that should fix the autos glitch that causes cars to vanish. Please see this thread for details.

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Miniwing Counts Fixed
Sorry for the delay. Our servers are tip-top and healthy, and the miniwing counts should be correct.

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Bug Fixes
- fixed wrapping of page numbers in the forum topic list
- re-enabled Photobucket. In celebration, a mashup of XKCD #303 that is an inside joke:
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Accidental Message
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Garages
- the fix for invisible cars / locked items in Garages seems to be working okay; please see this thread for details and to report issues.

Two common problems with Garages and their solutions:

- if you try to go into your garage and you get a white exception page, please make sure that all your auto items are out of storage.
- if, when trying to equip an item, you get a red exclamation mark, make sure the item isn't in storage.

Bottom line: storage is bad news for Garages.

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Frontier Skies-ing/Booty Grabbing
- Frontier Skies will be taken down for a couple of weeks for some tweaking and to make it less event specific. It should go back up in the middle of November.
- Booty Grab fix pushed for IE / some Chrome users.

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AutoCash and Paypal
A number of users had asked for a Paypal option in AutoCash. If you go to the AutoCash page, at the bottom there are two icons by the "Pay With" where you can choose between credit cards and Paypal.

There will be a full announcement next week.

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