We expect things to return to normal in the next couple of days -- or at least close enough to normal that we won't need to require accounts to download skins.
But some itneresting stats:
Over the weekend the website got 13,000 new accounts. To put this in perspective, on Thursday the site had a total of around 6,000 accounts (so we have about 20,000 accounts total).
DesktopX got 47,000 downloads over the weekend just from download.com. These users naturally came somewhere to get more skins and themes which was here.
Very soon we're going to upgrade the server so it can handle more traffic. Bandwidth is only part of the issue, it's purely quantity of users hammering the database. By next week at the latest you should be able to notice a fairly significant performance boost.
