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I'm an auxilliary mod on CDO, meaning I only help run contests and help people register. I've no access to the old E-mail address (in fact its password seemed long lost when I asked about it for image-recovery purposes) and am not linked up in potential Twitter accounts and suchlike. I was one of three mods that were taken aboard in 2014 to keep some things rolling while the resident Staff was all busy up to their ears with real life. One of these mods have left, and the other, who knows some of the tech stuff, is rather inactive at the moment. And I'm just a contest helper. Some old staff members have returned with more hobby time on their hands, but old fallen reins (such as the Twitter account) have not been picked up by them anew. They don't have as much spare time as they used to do.

You'll see signs of this absence and lagging-behind on the staff level if you check the frontpage galleries and links. There is a dearth of updates, because it is a royal chore that needs to be done manually by a dedicated member who knows the code (I certainly don't!). So while CDO largely keeps running on momentum by itself on old software, largely unhandled by mods except when something crash, much of the facade is left intact as remains from a time when the proper staff had more time on their hands, but this obviously need to be updated as regards contacts, because there is wont to be a lot of dead ends (such as the old staff E-mail).

The registration problems seem to have been ongoing for some years now. Some people can register, others cannot. At random. Our tech-man, Xander, has looked into the issue but found no fault as such with forum software. As of present we believe some newer E-mail spam filters may interfere with confirmation E-mails, but there is no bug inherent in CDO as such. One possible solution could be to update forum software (for free software, importantly), but doing so would collide with the heavily customized software of the site, meaning regular forum software updates cannot be implemented (two signs of this is the lack of spoiler tags and the lack of an edit button when on mobile phone at the site). A lot could be lost, but it is a step that might be worth taking. I'll bring it up in staff again. At the very least I'll ask Xander to change the named staff E-mail to one I use on the side, so that I'd see incoming registration trouble calls.