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A quick heads-up, the forum will be offline around midnight EDT for about 30 minutes for some minor maintenance work.
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Ah, the moving broom sweeps, and having swept, moves on. :twisted:
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The contents of the various sub-forums have been merged into their parent forum to simplify the Board Index page.

We also took the opportunity to run a sanity check on the database as some intermittent database errors had been detected.
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We've received notification from our hosting provider that they have "planned server maintenance tonight", between 10 pm to 6 am EDT, the maintenance will include approximately 30 minutes of downtime during this time.
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Please be advised that we've received notification from our hosting provider that they have "planned server maintenance tonight", between 11 pm to 4 am EDT. They have indicated that the estimated downtime to be 30 to 45 minutes.
Our hosting provider wrote:We apologize for such short notice and for any inconvenience this may cause.
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As some of you might have noticed, our sites were briefly down this morning. We just received notification from our hosting provider that they have "planned server maintenance tonight", between 11 pm to 4 am EDT. They have indicated that the estimated downtime to be 30 to 45 minutes while the server is rebooted.
Our hosting provider wrote:We apologize for such short notice and for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Please be advised that we've received notification from our hosting provider that they have "planned server maintenance tonight", between 11 pm to 4 am EDT. They have indicated that the estimated downtime to be 30 to 45 minutes.
Our hosting provider wrote:We apologize for such short notice and for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Apologies for the short notice, but today at 2 pm EST the forum will be offline for some required maintenance. Expected to take less than 30 minutes.
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Maintenance completed and forum back online.

As always, please report any problems.
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We'll be taking the forum offline tonight at 11 pm EST for a software update. It is expected that the software update will take about an hour, hopefully less.
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Please be advised that we have received notification from our hosting provider that they have "planned server maintenance" tonight/tomorrow morning between midnight to 8 am EDT. They have indicated that the estimated downtime to be 30 to 60 minutes.
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Please be advised that we have again received notification from our hosting provide that they have "planned server maintenance" scheduled for Tuesday, December 8 at 11:30pm EST, which they estimate as 15-20 minutes of downtime during which our websites (FWF and finiki) may be temporarily unavailable.
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The forum will be offline tomorrow morning, Sat. March 18th, beginning at 9 am EDT. During this time the software that runs the board will be updated. The estimated downtime is between 30 and 60 minutes.
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Update on the timeframe, the board will offline in about 20 minutes, Sat. March 18th, beginning at 1 am EDT. Apologizes to the night owls still online.
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Peculiar_Investor wrote: 18 Mar 2017 00:40 Update on the timeframe, the board will offline in about 20 minutes, Sat. March 18th, beginning at 1 am EDT. Apologizes to the night owls still online.
We are back online. See We're now running on phpBB 3.2 for the details.
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Time for another update to the forum software. The board will be offline for about 20 minutes tonight, January 8, 2018, beginning at approximately 10:00 pm MST.
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Time for another update to the forum software. The board will be offline for about 20 minutes today, September 16, 2018, beginning at approximately 11:00 am EDT.
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Update completed and we're back online.
Peculiar_Investor wrote: 08 Mar 2018 10:45 One caveat, the current version of the forum software has a known bug that effectively only allows one attachment, that new post empties attachment list of all but first attachment. This will be fixed in the next software release, date unknown.
The problem with multiple attachments has been fixed with the update applied today.
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Once again it is time for another update to the forum software.

The board will be taken offline to do the update tonight, Sat. November 17th, at approximately 9 pm EST for about 15 minutes, likely less.
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Peculiar_Investor wrote: 17 Nov 2018 13:45 Once again it is time for another update to the forum software.

The board will be taken offline to do the update tonight, Sat. November 17th, at approximately 9 pm EST for about 15 minutes, likely less.
The software update planned for this evening has been postponed until further notice.
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Giving notice that the board will be taken offline to do a software update tonight, Monday November 19th, at approximately 10:30 pm MST (that's early Tuesday morning for those in EST).

It is expected the board will be offline for about 15 minutes, likely less.
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Update completed and we're back online.
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Time for another maintenance update to the forum software. The board will be offline for about 15 minutes (or less) this evening, Saturday December 29, 2018, beginning at approximately 11:30 pm EST.
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Update has been completed and we're back online.
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