Reminder: Downtime tomorrow

[denise]

A reminder: the site will be down/in read-only mode tomorrow for server maintenance for at least a little while. (Some people may also have trouble accessing the site even after it comes back up, depending on your network/computer/ISP settings.) We're beginning the maintenance window at 10AM EST/7AM PST/11PM UTC, and to be on the safe side, we're setting a window of 8 hours for possible downtime. It probably won't take that long, but there's also a (very small) chance it may take longer! We'll keep you updated on any changes with our off-site status Twitter account.

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[rambl3]

Instead of Twitter might I suggest using a GNU Social or Pump.io based website (or both and set your application to post to both simultaneously)? It goes in the spirit of openness et. al.. I imagine many of the users here are more likely to have such accounts or be willing to create such. :D

https://gnu.io/social/try/
http://pump.io/

[denise]

Thanks for the suggestion! We use Twitter for offsite status update because people expect it of us, it's simple and works cross-platform (clients for everything), and their servers aren't likely to have problems even if the issue that we're having is affecting a lot of the internet. I'll take a look at those sites, although I'll be honest -- the "easy" and "stable servers" are really the important consideration over using something that's specifically open, since when we're having problems or an outage, we want the offsite status update to be as reliable and as simple as possible to update. (Generally, yes, we go with an open solution over a proprietary one, but this isn't a core focus of the site, just an easy way to keep people posted about any problems that come up.)