Database query failed?

i see it as well. though it seems to be running the contests fine.

The site seems to be down a lot.

But you can't join these contests so it's not fine

This is not good!

Mine is like this as well. I'm ok with waiting for a bit, but it does seem to go down a lot. Maybe there should be something to subscribe to that mentions site issues and updates?

Database query failed was being displayed because the table for entries became corrupt. That's now been repaired. Aside from that, we're just completely overloaded with traffic. We're going to switch over to Litespeed soon and see if that improves performance, and if not, upgrade servers.

Thanks its all up and running now