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dw_maintenance2023-07-30 09:25 pm
denise) wrote in dw_maintenance2023-07-30 09:25 pm
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We are planning a code push tonight -- the exact timing will depend on people's availability but it should be sometime between 9:30PM EDT and 11:30PM EDT (ie, anywhere from 10 minutes from now to about two hours from now). The list of changes that are included in this code push can be found in the most recent code tour.
We don't expect any meaningful user impact (there may be 30 seconds of slowness here and there). Two things of note that may cause some problems after the new code is running, however:
* This release includes a number of pages on the site being converted from the Extremely Old way of assembling a page to the newer way. As always, we do our best to keep them looking as visually similar as we can and to test them on multiple browsers/devices/etc before we let the changes out of testing, but if something looks new and weird (as opposed to just new), please let us know and bear with us while we fix it.
* This release also includes, to address our ongoing spam woes, a change that will prevent people who haven't confirmed their email addresses from posting on the site. (Previously, if your email was unconfirmed, you could post but not comment.) If you run into an error when trying to post that references confirming your email address, see How do I confirm my email address? for instructions on how to confirm your email address. You will be unable to post until you confirm your email address.
We don't expect any meaningful user impact (there may be 30 seconds of slowness here and there). Two things of note that may cause some problems after the new code is running, however:
* This release includes a number of pages on the site being converted from the Extremely Old way of assembling a page to the newer way. As always, we do our best to keep them looking as visually similar as we can and to test them on multiple browsers/devices/etc before we let the changes out of testing, but if something looks new and weird (as opposed to just new), please let us know and bear with us while we fix it.
* This release also includes, to address our ongoing spam woes, a change that will prevent people who haven't confirmed their email addresses from posting on the site. (Previously, if your email was unconfirmed, you could post but not comment.) If you run into an error when trying to post that references confirming your email address, see How do I confirm my email address? for instructions on how to confirm your email address. You will be unable to post until you confirm your email address.