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[Forum] Scheduled Forum update, upgrade, and maintenance, planned for 2023-11-02.

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[Forum] Scheduled Forum update, upgrade, and maintenance, planned for 2023-11-02.

#1 Post by donald »

Please take into consideration that the forum will be unavailable for planned maintenance Thursday of NEXT week: 2023-03-23.

The timeframe will be 19:00 EDT / 23:00 UTC.

This the the second cleanup toward the following:

Database cleanup.
Software update.
Full O/S update.
Checks on files of super super secret nature.
Detailed Log reviews.

We may:
Do a small set purge of aged inactive users and old unanswered threads.
Remove under used and unused features. Not many remain that are not used, so most likely not.

Timing:
These tasks should only take a few hours.
The rain date for this will be 2023-03-25.

This thread will remain open until and for 1 week after the maintenance.
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Re: [Forum] Scheduled Forum update, upgrade, and maintenance, planned for 2023-03-23.

#2 Post by revmacian »

Thank you for the advance notice. I wish other websites would do advance notice like this.. instead of just a huge "We're sorry for any inconvenience" banner on the day of maintenance.
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Re: [Forum] Scheduled Forum update, upgrade, and maintenance, planned for 2023-03-23.

#3 Post by donald »

revmacian wrote: 2023-03-18 13:27 Thank you for the advance notice. I wish other websites would do advance notice like this.. instead of just a huge "We're sorry for any inconvenience" banner on the day of maintenance.
Anytime.

Me too. Few things are more frustrating than going to a resource and it is not working. No notice irks me like a wayward shopping cart that makes one wonder if one is in the wrong neighborhood or makes one reflect on the depravity of your fellow man. :D

Worst offenders IMHO are banks that do work on a Monday morning.
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Please take into consideration that the forum will be unavailable for planned maintenance Thursday of NEXT week: 2023-11

#4 Post by donald »

Please take into consideration that the forum will be unavailable for planned maintenance Thursday of NEXT week: 2023-11-02.

The timeframe will be 19:00 EDT / 23:00 UTC.

This the the third cleanup toward the following:

Database cleanup.
Software update.
Full O/S update.
Checks on files of super super secret nature.
Detailed Log reviews.

We may:
Do a small set purge of aged inactive users and old unanswered threads.

Timing:
These tasks should only take a few hours.
The rain date for this will be 2023-11-12.

This thread will remain open until and for 1 week after the maintenance.
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"The advice given above is all good, and just because a new message has appeared it does not mean that a problem has arisen, just that a new gremlin hiding in the hardware has been exposed." - FreewheelinFrank

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Re: [Forum] Scheduled Forum update, upgrade, and maintenance, planned for 2023-11-02.

#5 Post by happyfeet8827 »

Thanks I really appreciate that the administration staff are kind enough to advise the community members of planned maintenance. I say this because I'm also a member of the Linuxquestions.org community and the administrators over on that forum seem to forget to warn the community at large of planed maintenance.

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