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Downtime ahead! [now finished]

Postby [violet] » Sun Feb 28, 2016 4:02 pm

Hello all,

A big chunk of downtime is coming for a feature release, as mentioned on the News page.

The plan is to take the server down at 6:30pm PST / 9:30pm EST / 2:30am GMT / 1:30pm AEDT.

And come back up approximately 3 hours later.

This is an estimate and may vary depending on how many things go horrifically wrong in the process.

During this time, the forum will stay up, and I'm hopeful you will be able to remain logged-in. But that's what I thought last time, and it didn't work, so it may be that the forums go read-only during this time. I'll do my best.

Thanks for your patience!

Update: All done!
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Postby Blorbs » Sun Feb 28, 2016 4:04 pm

Well, at least that means we get some nice new features now :D

Also the obligitory 'First'
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Have the forums EVER stayed online during one of these, or was last time the first time that that happened?
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Postby [violet] » Sun Feb 28, 2016 4:13 pm

Dalvius wrote:Have the forums EVER stayed online during one of these, or was last time the first time that that happened?

They almost always stay online, but usually no-one can log in. If you are already logged in, you have often been able to stay logged in so long as you only click around the forum and don't refresh or visit any other links.
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Postby Sylven » Sun Feb 28, 2016 4:13 pm

AWESOME! I can't WAIT! :o
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Postby Mexar » Sun Feb 28, 2016 4:15 pm

Yay, for the new features. Not so much for the downtime. :p
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Postby Dalvius » Sun Feb 28, 2016 4:15 pm

[violet] wrote:
Dalvius wrote:Have the forums EVER stayed online during one of these, or was last time the first time that that happened?

They almost always stay online, but usually no-one can log in. If you are already logged in, you have often been able to stay logged in so long as you only click around the forum and don't refresh or visit any other links.

So...don't refresh, and don't click any outside links?
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Postby The Candy Of Bottles » Sun Feb 28, 2016 4:17 pm

Dalvius wrote:
[violet] wrote:They almost always stay online, but usually no-one can log in. If you are already logged in, you have often been able to stay logged in so long as you only click around the forum and don't refresh or visit any other links.

So...don't refresh, and don't click any outside links?

From past experience, I can say other tabs are fine.
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Postby Blorbs » Sun Feb 28, 2016 4:18 pm

The Candy Of Bottles wrote:
Dalvius wrote:So...don't refresh, and don't click any outside links?

From past experience, I can say other tabs are fine.

Hurry! Stock up on a bunch of tabs at the board index!
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I don't really mind because I will probably be asleep by then, and when I wake up; new features.
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Thanks for letting us know.
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