Every time I try to access one of the pages that used to have official stuff with fan-made additions (like the Spells and schematics sections), the top menus load but I get a message about how it cannot access mySQL underneath and nothing else loads. Any ideas what's going on there?
It's not you. I also get error "Unable to connect to MySQL" when trying to access spells. Also, when trying to get to the gallery I receive: "Coppermine critical error: Unable to connect to database ! MySQL said: Access denied for user 'terra_arcanum'@'localhost' (using password
Being hosted by Sorcerer's place, I'd say it's most likely a problem on their end. Coppermine is an image hosting webapp IIRC, so I'm not sure on the relevance there. I dunno, it's something they'd need to sort out I guess.
The main page has the database password stored in at least three different places, when it could've just used the forums config file.