As everyone knows the Guild has been down an awful lot recently. Whilst there has been threads that have discussed this problem (including the thread that shall not be named) and I hear that its also been discussed on the IRC, I personally have been unable to find any posts from the Mods that summarise the issue. I understand that one probably does exist but, correct me if I'm wrong, there isn't a thread dedicated to the subject.

[b]What I'm hoping this thread will do then, is give the mods a chance to open dialogue with the members regarding solutions to the problem.[/b] I think it would be unfair for the community to simply demand the mods fix this without offering some sort of aid. To begin with, is there anything preventing the guild from starting some sort of crowd-funding to cover the expenses of upgrading servers? I know I personally wouldn't mind donating a few pounds to see the guild prosper a bit more. Given that there is supposedly [i][url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/users]around 11,000 members[/url][/i], you would imagine that some reasonable amount could be obtained. 
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That is presuming that servers simply cannot handle the amount of users. I suppose there's little we can do if this is down to a DoS attack by a 'rival' site or the Guardians of Peace[/hider]

Also I don't know how it effects the guild, but I know my friends website suffers a lot due to ad-blocker. Is this the case for the Guild? If so, perhaps a community drive to persuade members to pause it for this site would help? The ads on this site are hardly intrusive after all.