@trust_level_0, my deepest apologies for the extended downtime yesterday evening. Discourse made a significant version change in Ember, their underlying framework, upgrading it from version 3 to 5. This caused one of our most popular plugins, Retort (the plugin that allows us to use multiple reactions and select different reactions to posts), to malfunction and take our entire site down.
You can find more details about Discourse’s move to Ember 5 in the following link: Preparing for Discourse’s upgrade to Ember 5 - announcements - Discourse Meta
Thankfully, Discourse has a forced compatibility mode via a flag that I was able to specify in the forum’s .yml configuration file, which ensures Ember 3 support. However, this temporary compatibility mode will be removed in the first quarter of 2024.
Since our early beginnings, I promised not to request donations, and I stand by that. So, this is not a donation request for my efforts here. However, if you would like to help fund a code bounty/conversion project (discussions with Discourse developers are currently in progress) that I will be commissioning to resurrect Retort’s features, I will provide details shortly after I determine arrangements with the developer(s) who accept the job.