'Tis the season for new skins!

Along with winter skins from previous years, we now have a grand total of four new wintery skins:

Holly & Ivy — banner and background by MJ
All Is Bright — banner by Bee, background by MJ
Deep And Crisp And Even — banner and background by MJ
The Silent Snowscape — banner by Kelly, background by Lady

The Silent Snowscape is a welcome addition to our growing collection of dark skins!

Note: if your account was set to use the default skin and you're still seeing the SWP fog skin then you'll need to change your settings back to use default.

People have been reporting occasional loading errors on Charming over the past week. They seem to be fixed by refreshing although this is of course very irritating, especially if you write up your posts in the browser window. This seems to be a web host issue and not us specifically so hopefully it'll be sorted soon.

Lastly, you may remember hearing about the UK bringing in age verification checks on websites and long story short, Imgur has blocked UK IPs. This means UK users can't view any images hosted on Imgur and instead get a replacement image stating the image is blocked.

You're welcome to use any image host you like but if you want to make sure your images are visible to everyone you may want to use an alternative image host. I used to use Imgur and have swapped to File Garden. So far it's been reliable and it's easier to use than Imgur.