This post briefly covers two topics – the June 16/17 unplanned downtime, and upcoming planned downtime.

Your friendly site admin here, with an advisory note.
There are several security and performance-related patches that have been tested against the various bits under the bonnet of the BrassGoggles blog and forum, and we’ll be installing these starting tonight, and extending through the weekend.
We’re also taking this opportunity to perform a little maintenance and retooling [...]

UPDATE: If you’re seeing this, you’re at our new home!  You may notice that your address bar contains ‘74.126.25.104′ instead of ‘brassgoggles.co.uk’; fret not, that should be fixed in a few days (it’s a side effect of moving to the new host).
My apologies for the short notice: we’d intended to manage this a little more [...]

The forum is back…
The Steampunk Forum…
I wish to extend my heart felt thanks to Mr. D. Meyer for his heroic efforts in this respect…
O.S.M.

Your friendly (and rather welted) techie, here! If you’re seeing this post, you’ve arrived at the new home of BrassGoggles. You may notice that “steam.punqs.org” is in your address bar — don’t panic, this is only a temporary change so that people who have Internet Providers that are less savvy than yours have [...]