Imports from LJ re-enabled

[denise]

LJ has let us know that they've re-enabled third-party application access to the site, which has allowed us to re-enable imports from LJ and means that crossposting to LJ will be less likely to fail. (Crossposts still may fail due to temporary site unavailability; as mentioned in the previous update, until you get a failure message in your inbox, the crosspost is still retrying even if it hasn't actually posted to the remote account yet.)

Thanks to LJ for keeping us in the loop on this. We salute y'all over there for your tireless efforts to stay online throughout this DDoS.

Upcoming code push

[denise]

We are scheduling a 2-hour code push and maintenance window starting at 11PM EST Fri, 9 Dec and ending at 1AM EST Sat 10 Dec (beginning 4AM UTC Sat 10 Dec; convert to your local time)

In the best case scenario, this push will involve putting the site into "maintenance mode" very briefly (five minutes or so) during that window to run updates. In the worst case scenario, there may be some unexpected errors after the push: this update will include a lot of backend changes and reorganization, and although these changes have been tested, there will always be that one bug that doesn't show up until you've suddenly got thousands of users trying a whole bunch of things all at once! We'll be on top of things to watch out for problems, but we wanted to give you a bit of warning, and that's why we're scheduling the full 2-hour window even though if all goes well it shouldn't take anywhere near that long.

Either fu or I will post a reminder before maintenance begins.