Well it's about time for another wall of text to clutter the portal a news post regarding various changes to the services StormBit offers:

First and foremost, "TempCraft" has been reborn under the name "The Depths".
The namechange brings with it a swathe of improvements, as much of the server's infrastructure has been rebuilt from scratch:
The controversial client which was forced upon all users is long gone, and now new players are able to login via the official client (or one of it's many mods, such as SpoutCraft which we explicitly support). Players with existing accounts will need to enable the vanilla client in their User Control Panel on the website.
Everything about the new server has been designed to improve player experience, right down from the new spawn to the new website.
BukkitIRCd has been developed in-house to...

After a seemingly endless week, the TempCraft and StormBit forums are back.
However, both communities now share the same forum-base in an effort to promote unity and also to increase moderation efficiency. (I swear server load wasn't a part of it. )

TempCraft Forum Staff have been moved into their own groups, with the same permissions as before, and vice versa for StormBit staff.
No posts have been lost in the process, and all accounts will be converted to the new database schema at first login. You may need to adjust your signatures, and we appologize in advance for the inconvenience.

Our priorities over the past week (for anyone who is interested) consist of:

1. Optimising the webserver
2. Merging the two forums as seamlessly as possible.
3. Migrating away to a better structured forum software.
4. Finding and adapting a suitable theme (we have also had to repair it quite significantly).
5. Restructuring staff and the forum as a whole.

As for the reasoning behind...