Ground Control to Liberty One: ..”We have main engine separation, next stop – Freedom”…

As the CTH community is aware, WordPress/Automattic has demanded our voice leave their platform. Effective this moment, “Operation CTH Liberty” is underway, and we are separating from main host web servers. {Go Deep} During this transitional phase we are in, we will have a controlled comment blackout until the site migration is complete to new host servers. You may or may not be able to comment. The anticipated transit time is 30 hours to new host.
By taking this painstaking approach, we are ensuring that all internal links do not result in a “404” dead link notification. Meaning the library will remain intact, and all external links that lead to the CTH library will be able to find them. Additionally, and/all citations within the CTH library will be retained, and people will be able to use all the embed links; and also importantly, all prior links to your previous comments are retained.
During the transition and data transfer, we will need to shut down commenting function for CTH (WordPress) until CTH 2.0 launches. The mirroring of the site during this process will take (based on the test run) approximately 30 hours +/-. As a result, it is highly likely comments will be closed for around two days. Unfortunately, there is no other way to pull this off; it is simply a matter of volume and scale.
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