Scheduled Maintenance

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Deleted member 42

We sometimes have to shut Absolute Write's forums off to perform maintenance.

When I know in advance, I'll post an announcement here. I don't always know; sometimes things go wrong.

If the forums are off and you visit them, you'll see a statement at the very top of the page announcing that there off.

Here are some places to get information:

Twitter

AW Admin's twitter feed


MacAllister's twitter feed

Facebook

Absolute Write Page

If the forums are off, or the entire site is "down" please don't check back every ten minutes.

Give me at least an hour to suss out the problem and try to fix it. It's much harder to do that if people are refreshing the page.

Thanks

Lisa | Medievalist | AW Admin
 
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I can't wait until we're back on again....
 

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:D

Nice one Poet. I suppose I should have posted a note that "The board's back up" here, but since I noticed EIGHT members were still clicking Refresh, I figured they'd get the idea sooner or later . . .
 
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Deleted member 42

Just bumping this to remind folks:

Tonight's the night!

Shell scripts!

Cron jobs!

And the board and Web site will be off for about an hour from 11pm Seattle/Los Angeles time tonight.
 

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Oh so this is the one night of the week were I actually get work done? I joke, I joke! Glad for the reminder though, I would have forgotten. :) Thanks.
 

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Oh so this is the one night of the week were I actually get work done? I joke, I joke! Glad for the reminder though, I would have forgotten. :) Thanks.

Err . . . on the forgetting?

Last week, so did I :D
 

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Oh no! :D
I do that too, but my site doesn't have traffic like this. This place is like a city, mine is like a parish.
:D I only plan to do maintenance every 2 weeks. And I always forget. Tsk, tsk.
 

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Yes, folks, it's that wonderful fun night every week where we try to stay up late enough to err . . . groom the board.

In 40 minutes, at 11pm Seattle time, everybody get out of the pool; we'll shut the board down for about an hour.

Tonight's beer is Full Sail Brewery's Session Black; it's pretty fine.
 

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Tonight's beer is Full Sail Brewery's Session Black; it's pretty fine.

Don't drink and code...

Also seen on a poster: Picture of a scribble, with the caption "Don't Drink and Draw".

:D

Happy maintenance!
 

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Can I be mortified even though I missed this?

I need an excuse for the bad behavior I'm going to display soon.
 

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Don't drink and code...

Also seen on a poster: Picture of a scribble, with the caption "Don't Drink and Draw".

:D

Happy maintenance!

Dude, it's a session beer--and it was just the one!
 

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Can I be mortified even though I missed this?

I need an excuse for the bad behavior I'm going to display soon.

You want I should pre-emptively put you in time out?

We're a full service organization here.
 

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Why am I often left scratching my head when I'm on this forum? It must be funny to watch my face alternating from a frown to deer-in-the-headlights to total bewilderment and back again.:Huh::Wha::e2shrug::Huh:
 

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OK. In about an hour and fifty minutes, we're shutting off the boards for their once a week grooming.
 

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Yep; tonight's the night. We'll be shutting down the board for about an hour; might be a little longer this time, at 11pm Seattle/Pacific time.

This routine, and we'll be back ASAP. Please don't keep refreshing. Just go write for an hour, or think about what beer I should write about next, or drink a cold one for me, since, alas,

I Have No Beer
 
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