Questions tagged [maintenance]
For questions or announcements on Meta Stack Exchange about Stack Exchange maintenance work.
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Sporadic bursts of extreme slowness across all pages on all sites
I (and several other users at the same time) have been periodically experiencing extremely slow page loads (including, at times, pages erroring out after trying to load for a while).
It appears to ...
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Change the HTTP status blog links to HTTPS
In the "We are currently offline for maintenance" page, the status blog link is a HTTP one. Please change it to HTTPS.
Also, in the header which is shown when the site is in read-only mode, ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Friday, March 18th, 00:30-2:00 UTC (Thursday, March 17th, 8:30-10:00 PM EDT)
This maintenance is finished as of 01:29 UTC.
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Planned service interruption that will impact all Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange sites, Jobs, and Chat. All sites may be read-only for up to ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 2:00AM UTC (Friday, February 18, 2022 at 9:00PM US/EST)
tl;dr Planned service interruption that will impact all Stack Exchange sites, Jobs, and Chat. All sites may be read-only for up to 2 hours on Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 2:00AM UTC (Friday, ...
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Intermittent "maintenance"
I've been getting this on and off for what must be hours:
We are currently offline for maintenance
Routine maintenance usually takes less than an hour. If this turns into an extended outage, we will ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Thursday, 16 December at 01:30-2:00 UTC (Wednesday, December 15 at 8:30-9:00 PM US/EST)
This work is now complete
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Planned service interruption that will impact all Stack Overflow & Stack Exchange sites, Jobs, and Chat. All sites may be read-only for up to 30 minutes beginning ...
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Clicking on Inbox or Reputation box when site is 'Read only mode' gives messages which are hard to read due to scrolling issues
When the site is in read-only mode and you go to someone or your network profile and click on the inbox you get something like this:
It is too tough to read the message. Scrolling doesn't work with ...
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'Read-only mode' banner on stackexchange.com has overlapping text
When the site was in readonly mode for maintenance an hour ago, I noticed that the banner on https://stackexchange.com/questions had its text overlapping:
The issue seems to be that #system-message ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Oct 30 & 31, 2021, starting at 13:00 UTC
Update 2021-10-31T14:19:00Z: We are done. Thank you for your patience and all your supportive tweets.
Update 2021-10-31T13:22:00Z: Today's work will be starting shortly. https://twitter.com/...
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Planned SEDE maintenance scheduled for Oct 15, 2021 and Oct 16, 2021 15:00-17:00 UTC (11am-1pm ET)
Update 4: 2021-10-16 16:33 UTC: Today's window is done. Actual user-visible downtime was negligible. Thanks for bearing with us! This round of maintenance is done.
Update 3: 2021-10-16 15:00 UTC: ...
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Not all sign up buttons are grayed out in maintenance mode
When the site is in read-only mode, the 'Sign up' button in the navigation bar is grayed out because it doesn't work. Could that be extended to the button in the 'welcome anonymous user' banner?
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Planned network maintenance scheduled for Saturday, October 2 at 15:00-17:00 UTC (11:00-13:00 EDT)
NOTE: 02-OCT-2021 1627Z: Maintenance successfully completed.
NOTE: 02-OCT-2021 1500Z: Maintenance is starting.
Because we weren't able to accomplish all of the objectives during the last maintenance ...
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Adding a link to Meta when the Stack Exchange network is under maintenance
The following banner has been being shown at present when Stack Network is under maintenance.
The site is currently in read-only mode; we'll return with full functionality soon. Follow @StackStatus ...
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Planned network maintenance scheduled for Friday, October 1 at 01:00-04:00 UTC (Thursday, September 30 at 9:00 PM-midnight EDT)
Note: 2021-10-01 04:00Z - Maintenance is complete. We didn't finish all the tasks and we have scheduled another maintenance window. Thank you for your patience!
Note: 2021-10-01 01:00Z - Beginning ...
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Is there a policy for extending bounty periods in cases where there is SE network outage or maintenance? [duplicate]
If I start a bounty, I expect that bounty to last 7 days unless I award the bounty before the time of expiry. What happens if there is Stack Exchange Network maintenance or outage during that time? Is ...
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Planned SEDE maintenance scheduled for Sept 22, 2021 at 01:00-04:00 UTC (Sept 21 9:00 pm-midnight EDT)
Note: The originally planned second window on Sept 24 is cancelled as the upgrade was a success within the first window.
Note: 2021-09-21 0225Z - Maintenance has ended. Please leave a comment if there ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Thursday, September 2 at 12:00am UTC (Wednesday September 1 8:00 PM US/EDT)
Update: The maintenance went as planned.
tl;dr; Planned service interruption that will impact all Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange sites, Jobs, Chat, and Teams. All sites may be read-only for up to 30 ...
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Most sites seem to be down right now
Most sites seem to be down right now, e.g. Stack Overflow:
Meta Stack Exchange is one of the few which are still up (for me, located in the Netherlands). No updates on StackStatus (Twitter / website)....
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Thursday, July 29 at 12:00am UTC (Wednesday July 28 8:00 PM US/EDT)
Update: The maintenance went as planned.
tl;dr; Planned service interruption that will impact all Stack Exchange sites, Jobs, and Chat. All sites may be read-only for up to 60 minutes on Thursday, ...
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Did chat just die?
I can't seem to load anything on https://chat.stackexchange.com (main page, transcripts, user pages, rooms).
I also checked on https://isup.me and it said it was down too.
Anyone else getting this, ...
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Economic Impact of a Stack Overflow Outage
I noticed that we've got some planned maintenance coming up.
It just got me thinking: has anyone ever tried to estimate the global economic impact of SO downtime?
We're all very aware of how much more ...
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Planned maintenance COMPLETED for Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 01:00 UTC (Tuesday June 29 9:00 PM US/EDT)
UPDATE: The test is complete.
tl;dr; Planned service interruption that will impact all Stack Exchange sites, Jobs, and Chat. All sites will be read-only for up to 1 hour on Wed June 30, 2021 at 01:00 ...
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Can we reinstate stackstatus.net as a channel to update on any reliability/availability issues on the network?
This question was prompted by this answer by employee Mike Frank, from the SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team.
In his answer Mike states:
We're looking at how we can better plan and notify for ...
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Stack Exchange seems to be down
Meta Stack Exchange and many other sites in the network seem to be down, what's happening?
(In case you were wondering: this question was posted via the officially deprecated Stack Exchange iOS app.)
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Friday, June 4, 2021 at 12:00am UTC (Thursday June 3 8:00 PM US/EDT)
Update: The maintenance went as planned.
tl;dr; Planned service interruption that will impact all Stack Exchange sites, Jobs, and Chat. All sites may be read-only for up to 15 minutes on Friday June ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Saturday, March 27, 2021 at 1:00 UTC (Friday March 26 9:00 PM US/EDT)
Update: The maintenance went as planned.
tl;dr; Planned service interruption that will impact all Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange sites, Jobs, Chat, and Teams. All sites may be read-only for up to 15 ...
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MAINTENANCE WARNING: Possible downtime early morning Dec 2, 4, and 9 UTC (8:30PM NYC-time on Dec 1, 3, and 8, 2020)
Update: (2020-12-09 UTC) Window C is complete. No outages or degradations.
Update: (2020-12-04 UTC) Window B is complete. No outages or degradations.
Update: (2020-12-02 UTC) Window A is complete....
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Brief possible service interruption
Micro Version: Possible service interruption. All Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow sites might be briefly unavailable during a 30-minute period on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 starting at 8PM US/Eastern (...
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"We are currently offline for maintenance", but we're not
Are there any on-going issues right now with SE infrastructure?
Both chat and sites have been experiencing intermittent issues for a few hours. This has been reported on Stack Overflow (main, meta and ...
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Planned maintenance scheduled for Saturday, March 28, 2020 at 13:00 UTC (9AM US/Eastern)
Update: The maintenance went as planned.
tl;dr; Planned service interruption that will impact all Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange sites, Jobs, Chat, and Teams. All sites will be read-only for up to an ...
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Whats the reason for Stack Exchange maintenance today (2020-02-15)
There is no one rest of the world who can fill the vacuum of Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange sites. Stack Overflow got maintenance break now I got stack!!
Now anyone please tell me why the ...
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Unplanned maintenance
Stack Overflow had an unplanned shutdown/maintenance of about 10 minutes on 12/11/2019 at about 2 pm GMT.
This was also the case for other Stack Exchange-owned websites such as Unix and Linux.
On ...
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The title of the page during the maintenance is not translated
During the maintenance the title of the site is "We are Offline". It's not translated, and there is no such string in traducir/transifex.
Could you add this string into Transifex?
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favicon is missing for the maintenance page in Firefox browser
Few minutes before I see the maintenance page in MSE, when seeing the page in Firefox, the favicon is missing, where as the favicon was displayed in Chrome.
Google Chrome Version 73.0.3683.103 (...
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Unclear outage notice: "This site is currently not accepting new answers."
All sites on the network were in a read only mode for 15–20 minutes a short while ago.
This small notice appeared at the bottom of every question:
This site is currently not accepting new ...
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Got captcha'd for asking a question again after an outage
I asked a question, which failed to get posted because Stack Overflow went down, and then I re-asked the question, and got captcha'd because of that.
I shouldn't be captcha'd because the Stack ...
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Stack Apps offline page with 007 image
Just before I got the offline page for the StackApps site.
Along with the following warning message
Stack Apps is currently offline for maintenance
Routine maintenance usually takes less than ...
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What was the downtime for?
Around an hour or so ago, SFF went into read-only mode. Apparently, it wasn't the only one - Stack Overflow and Super User went down as well, and I assume that all 153 sites experienced the same.
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Please keep the support Twitter stream and Blog up to date
The site suddenly went into read-only mode today at ~13:25Z came without warning. The banner that goes along with read-only mode says:
This site is currently in read-only mode; we’ll return with ...
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Getting runtime error on Stackexchange.com [closed]
I just browsed to http://www.stackexchange.com and got an error page:
Is this something wrong on my system or the server?
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Why did Stack Overflow time out?
When I try to access http://stackoverflow.com, the page times out. I'd post this on Meta Stack Overflow, but it times out as well. All other sites seem to be working fine.
Using Chrome on OS X 10.10. ...
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