I'm also getting file access errors for that matter (and my drives - as well as the rest of my hardware - are fine). Read errors, not write errors. Connection's also stable, and I'm not hammering the servers.
This isn't the typical 429 (which wouldn't show up with a single connection anyway unless the servers are blazing fast and you don't wait between each download/upload) but a full-blown file access error. I wonder if
Sphere42 was referring to this earlier and if so, I apologize for misunderstanding them.
(FWIW - another acronym but fuck it - might want to hold back on changing the UI for the time being unless there are broken things. The servers are going to experience a much higher load in the upcoming days and from the stats, it will not be from importers but leeches, which is exactly what I was worried about, especially if everything ends up behind mikocon FTP's paywall.)
KemonoDev There are now less importers and way more downloaders. Since the database apparently is forever lost, an UI revamp should not take priority to make the site more popular with leeches - or if there are some tidbits of data here and there, this should really take priority to ensure a working community project. Until you have a fully working database, you do not want more downloaders, you want
uploaders. Never took any request and I don't expect to get paid for my contributions to the site (I'm sure many importers are in this case too) but it would be very bad if they were disappointed and decided just to not import ever again, or take requests and literally, shamelessly steal and
resell from artists.
This isn't my site, so you are obviously free to do whatever you want with it. Apologies if my input sounds rude.