User blog comment:General Esdeath/Wikia Servers are back up again/@comment-4833494-20140222010801/@comment-3146930-20140222115216

A lot of times they will set up an update, but then get a bunch of unforeseen side effects as a results. I remember once they tried to make pages load quicker by only having images load when you got to them on a page. This resulted in images not loading at all and it took about a week to get everything working as it should again.