The issue with logging in with email addresses has been resolved.
Due to issues with external spam filters, QQ is currently unable to send any mail to Microsoft E-mail addresses. This includes any account at live.com, hotmail.com or msn.com.
Signing up to the forum with one of these addresses will result in your verification E-mail never arriving. For best results, please use a different E-mail provider for your QQ address.
For prospective new members, a word of warning: don't use common names like Dennis, Simon, or Kenny if you decide to create an account. Spammers have used them all before you and gotten those names flagged in the anti-spam databases. Your account registration will be rejected because of it.
Since it has happened MULTIPLE times now, I want to be very clear about this. You do not get to abandon an account and create a new one. You do not get to pass an account to someone else and create a new one. If you do so anyway, you will be banned for creating sockpuppets.
Due to the actions of particularly persistent spammers and trolls, we will be banning disposable email addresses from today onward.
The rules regarding NSFW links have been updated. See here for details.
There are several instances where The Onion's articles became real. The Gillette razors one is kinda meh, but my all-time favorite is the time The Onion got the scoop on U.S. Soothes Upset Netanyahu With Shipment Of Ballistic Missiles by twelve hours by just making it up.
As someone who has dealt with datacenters peripherally, big data uploads (like, multi-terabyte) are generally handled via the powers of Fedex overnight delivery, rather than waiting for the internet connection to upload it all and impact users for a day or two.
In the words of Randal Monroe...