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dighn said:
that's reasonable but can it be moved by a couple of hours? maintenance at 11 pm pacific affects a lot of users.
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yes, yes, what Dign says. ~3AM PT seems more appropriate, no? early risers on the East Coast should be working at 6 AM anyway, not neffing.

I guess that would make for downtime during the peak Euro neffing hours, though...
 
Hmm maybe I didn't notice it. I'm only used to it occurring around 22:45 - 23:00 pst on the dot, everytime I load AT at that time and notice it doesn't, I know it's that thing again.
 
at least 15 minutes for me? started maybe around 10:20pm PCT, IIRC. was refreshing page, then lockdown. came back a while later, still out.

blah.
 
Seems like it started 10:10 today. Was editing a thread and then blammo, luckily I just finished like 3 seconds before it went out. Weird stuff going on.
 
Not sure if it's related but right after the forums went down tonight I noticed my DST time settings changed.
 
There are websites that can tell you if a site is down or if the problem is just you. Downornot.com is one of those sites. Pretty much confirms daily maintenance. To be honest, I am a bit surprised there has to be daily maintenance. I don't know many places that do it daily. However, at least it does not last long.
 
Just like clock work, forums went down for about 15 minutes starting at 10:10 pm. I keep wondering why ATOT seems to need to do daily maint. but, [H] does not?
 
Just happened. Sometimes it gives the "forum maintenance" page, sometimes not.

I recall Fusetalk as having had something similar, except it just made the forums a bit slow for awhile. With vB, it seems to kick them offline completely.


Even just a little warning might be nice, like a counter or something until the maintenance begins. Suddenly you're just greeted with timeouts, and hoping that your browser will recall whatever post you just attempted to make.
 
There seems to be no way to contact the actual administrators of the forum. Perhaps the mods could place a post in each sub forum a few minutes before the outage or, are they taken unawares as well?
 
The outage happens like clockwork, there's no reason the mods couldn't put a warning up. But it's really kind of retarded that this happens at all.
 
GodlessAstronomer said:
The outage happens like clockwork, there's no reason the mods couldn't put a warning up. But it's really kind of retarded that this happens at all.
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It's annoying that the actual people in charge of the technical aspects of running the forum don't actually post here at all, not even for updates.

Sure, we've got a ton of admins and an overlord (or whatever the hell they are called) or two, but not a single person who can give us an update every once in a while on what's going on dealing with bugs and other issues.

I seem to recall a bunch of features (most notably, skins) that were slated to be added or at least considered (remember the plugin suggestion thread?) after the forum switch. Not a peep from anyone in the past 6 months.

It almost makes me wish Derek Wilson were back - at least he kept us updated on stuff every couple of months. I don't like this separation of forums and main site at all, either, where apparently no one from the site bothers to stop by (except to advertise occasionally).
 
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Crono said:
It's annoying that the actual people in charge of the technical aspects of running the forum don't actually post here at all, not even for updates.
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They're not posting because there's nothing to update you guys on. The forums are a stable and (relatively) bug-free product that are not having any work done to them at the moment. AnandTech's IT staff is currently still working on the new site design for the main site.

The maintenance window is necessary and will not be changing.

Plugins as it turns out are both an administrative and security problem, and except in very specific circumstances will not be added.

For the time being WYSIWYG.
 
ViRGE said:
The forums are a stable and (relatively) bug-free product
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I'd call daily outages that happen without warning a pretty big bug.


The maintenance window is necessary and will not be changing.
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Can you go into any detail about what exactly this "maintenance" is? No need to dumb it down -- I'm familiar with running busy websites. I'm really curious. It's hard for me to imagine a legitimate reason to bring a forum down every single night.

In this case it's a bummer the site is a commercial operation because otherwise perhaps some of the community members could pitch in some technical help and take care of the problem.

Of course, said commercial operation also keeps these forums in existence, so I'm not whining too much. Just wondering.
 
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