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try67
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August 13, 2009
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Make announcements before the actual event, please...

  • August 13, 2009
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It just keeps getting better and better... If you're going to do a "scheduled maintenance" on the site and it might prevent people from logging in, post the announcement BEFORE you do it, not when it's nearly over.

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    August 13, 2009

    The intent was there, right? It tawze a baby set in the right direction.

    Jacob Bugge
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    August 13, 2009

    Scheduled = Planned in advance!

    Well, from Collins English Dictionary:

    schedule ... ~vb (tr.) 7. to make a schedule of or place in a schedule. 8. to plan to occur at a certain time.

    It could be 7 in the sense: included into the schedule of unplanned/unforeseen events, only it sounds better, until someone comes to think about it.

    Captiv8r
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    August 13, 2009

    Hi all

    I think the login issue was unexpected.

    As for the "Scheduled outage" page you saw, It has been my own experience that this is kind of a default page you see when things go awry. Kind of like a custom 404 page you see on the web.

    Cheers... Rick

    try67
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    try67Community ExpertAuthor
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    August 13, 2009

    It was not a page. It's a "sticky" at the top of the forums home-page.

    August 13, 2009

    Yup.


    Scheduled = Planned in advance!