Slashdown
Whoa, this is unusual! Slashdot took a
dive tonight.
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If you don’t believe me, here’s a screenshot.
Update: Well, if I’d been reading Slashdot an hour ago, I would have
known. Certainly seems like not a lot of advance warning! From the post
(available thanks to AlterSlash during
the downtime):
We’re taking the system down tonight for a some system updates. We expect to go down around 9 (eastern) and hope to be back up by midnight. This is a pretty substantial upgrade, but the changes are almost entirely ‘Under the Hood’ type fixes: architecture stuff that shouldn’t really impact much end user functionality. When the dust settles we expect there to be a few bugs cropping up, so please click that ‘Bugs’ link on the left hand menu and submit reports so we can squash them quickly. And sorry about the inconvenience. We know it will be hard to live without us for a few hours, but I figure some quality time with your friends and family might just be long overdue!
Update 2: