So what is happening Tuesday, October 16?


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Liberty's Edge

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An interesting message on the top of the Paizo page appeared...

Paizo wrote:

The paizo.com website will be offline for scheduled maintenance Tuesday, October 16 at 10 a.m. Pacific time.

The downtime is expected to last between 3 and 10 hours.

What do you guys think is happening that might take that long of a time?

Are they replacing those ducks they are always trying to get into a row with ponies?

Did someone forget to feed the Gerbil?

Is the entity known as PostMonster General preparing for his release into the matrix?

Or...

Is the cable man coming and they have to close down to wait for him to come there and the cable company could not give an exact time of his arrival, just some time between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.

Grand Lodge

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Cave raptors. It's always cave raptors.

Contributor

It's usually cave raptors.

But this time it's just overhauling on our web services.

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

We're upgrading a couple things. The variance in expected down time is basically, if all goes well, we'll be done in a couple hours. If not, it'll take us longer to roll things back.

When we're all done, you shouldn't notice anything different. No new features, this is just infrastructure stuff.

Liberty's Edge

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Well that is boring Gary... :(


Yeah. At least get us a new "the site is down" screen. ;)

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Kajehase wrote:
Yeah. At least get us a new "the site is down" screen. ;)

and a blog of all the things the impatient employees say while it is down :) please.

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[ rumourmongering]Getting the servers ready for the Mythic playtest rush ;-) [/ rumourmongering]

Liberty's Edge

It sounds as though the Paizo people are not very confident in their security procedures to keep the goblins secure while they are being transferred into the shipping containers. I expect thorough reporting on the epic 10-hour dungeon crawl that is going to be required to get them back.

Grand Lodge

[more rumourmongering] Paizo Game Space! [/more rumourmongering]


Gary Teter wrote:

We're upgrading a couple things. The variance in expected down time is basically, if all goes well, we'll be done in a couple hours. If not, it'll take us longer to roll things back.

When we're all done, you shouldn't notice anything different. No new features, this is just infrastructure stuff.

But I did not see a probability density function or a moment generating functuion so how do you know the varience? ;p


>>So what is happening Tuesday, October 16?

Not sure about at Paizo, but I know what will happen in my part of the world: I will be going through messageboard withdrawl. LOL


10:00 AM pacific time should be about 15:00 (3:00 PM) at my time zone.Now is 18:16 (6:16 PM) here and nothing happened yet.Has the maintenance been delayed?


Gandal wrote:
10:00 AM pacific time should be about 15:00 (3:00 PM) at my time zone.Now is 18:16 (6:16 PM) here and nothing happened yet.Has the maintenance been delayed?

Your conversion must be wrong then.. It's still only ~920am pacific.


dunebugg wrote:
Gandal wrote:
10:00 AM pacific time should be about 15:00 (3:00 PM) at my time zone.Now is 18:16 (6:16 PM) here and nothing happened yet.Has the maintenance been delayed?
Your conversion must be wrong then.. It's still only ~920am pacific.

Sure, thought i don't know where in the US Paizo are located.I only know US time zone is about -5 to -8 hours compared to my zone.


They're in Seattle, way up in the northwest corner. I suspect the proximity to Canada is part of why they're so awesome. ;)


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What will I do for 10hours if I cannot gaze at the paizo forums every 5 minutes???!!

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

OK, looks like the downtime is over. You shouldn't notice any new features for now, and performance might be a little dodgy while everything spins up. But we're hoping this infrastructure upgrade helps us out with the stuff we've got planned over the next few weeks.

Grand Lodge

Any hints?

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

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We're nearing completion on a major refactoring of the messageboards code. Mostly it's to add support under the hood for Paizo Game Space, but there will be a few usability and appearance tweaks, and I'm hoping it'll perform better than the old code.

Scarab Sages

Does this mean I finally get my custom zombie smurf alias picture?


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Gary Teter wrote:
We're nearing completion on a major refactoring of the messageboards code. Mostly it's to add support under the hood for Paizo Game Space, but there will be a few usability and appearance tweaks, and I'm hoping it'll perform better than the old code.

I'm sure this is all well and good and if I was 20 years younger it may very well made a lick of sense.

As it stands, all you kids get off my lawn!

Scarab Sages

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I, GROGNARD wrote:
Gary Teter wrote:
We're nearing completion on a major refactoring of the messageboards code. Mostly it's to add support under the hood for Paizo Game Space, but there will be a few usability and appearance tweaks, and I'm hoping it'll perform better than the old code.

I'm sure this is all well and good and if I was 20 years younger it may very well made a lick of sense.

As it stands, all you kids get off my lawn!

Then let me explain using the universal language, Small words SHOUTED LOUDLY!

PAIZO, WANTS TO DO STUFF.
PAIZO.COM CAN'T DO THAT STUFF NOW.
SO PAIZO IS POKING IT WITH A STICK UNTIL IT DOES THE NEW STUFF.

That's why the website went down. there may have been Goblins and Fire involved. and the Sticks may or may not have been Pointy as well.


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See if my computer guys would just be as helpful as that when they explained stuff I might actually have a clue what they were talking about.

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

In case anybody's curious, this post describes some of what's planned for tomorrow's downtime.

Grand Lodge

Was looking for that... thanks.

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