Just a reminder that TalkLeft is being moved to a new server tonight. Hosting Matters expects to begin the move around 10 pm ET, but it could be earlier or later. We will be the only site on the new server. The move is being done to protect other sites on the current server, because for a reason we have not been able to determine, TalkLeft has been crashing the server a lot. It may just be that with 9,700 posts and over 125,000 comments, the site is too big. Or it could be a problem with our code, or spammer-induced. Being on a new server should make the cause easier to determine.

Comments you make here later today may or may not make it over to the new server. Once the move is complete, you may need to click your "refresh" button a few times Sunday to find us.

I will probably institute other comment policy changes in the coming weeks, aimed at reducing pings from spammers, and repetitive, hostile or long-winded comments from trolls and chatterers. I also want anonymous posters to identify themselves with the same moniker, so readers know their comments are coming from a single individual. You know who you are.

Update: Eric at Is That Legal? is having similar problems with commenters, particularly those posting under multiple names.