Desktop Nexus Blog

A number of users over the past 24 hours have reported issues uploading wallpapers to Desktop Nexus. We have recently experienced a massive increase in uploads per day, and our server cluster is having a difficult time scaling to meet the demand. I’ve just spent the past few hours on the phone with our datacenter, and we’re now in the process of a full-system overhaul and hardware upgrade, which will probably complete early next week. Until then there may be intermittent glitches and bugs appearing due to resource allocation and capacity problems. We are very sorry for all this, and hope to have it completely resolved as quickly as possible. The upside is when our new servers go online, Desktop Nexus should be quicker than ever, and have the ability to scale far beyond the current traffic and upload capacity, leaving only blue skies ahead. We’ll update you with more information as it’s available.

We just rolled out some changes to the core Desktop Nexus codebase to update the Wallpaper Violation Reporting/Flagging system.

We’ve experienced incredible growth over the past few months, and with the hundreds of new wallpapers being uploaded everyday, a solid reporting system is required to ensure the quality of the site is maintained. To try out the new system, visit any wallpaper on the site, and click the “Report This Wallpaper” tab.

For more details on what is different in the new system and how to use it, check out the announcement post we made in the forum.