Forum Maintenance Announcements

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Forums were offline starting at around 6:32AM PST on Saturday April 22, 2023 and lasted about 3.5 hours.
Past forum archives saved for upgrades have been purged to make more space available.
Service has been restored.
Thanks!

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Forum maintenance is planned this coming Friday night (April 28, 2023), some time between 8pm PDT and 10pm PDT with a total down-time expected to be about 1 hour.

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Forum software upgraded.

Changes that you may see:
Tag Manager support select-all
Using bbcode with URL should not try to embed compressed content.
Some JavaScript has been cleaned up by vendor.

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Please let us know if you see new problems on the forums.
Thanks!

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We have plans for forum maintenance Saturday, May 12, 2023 starting at around 8pm PDT.
Down-time is expected to last 1-5 hours depending on work required and problems encountered.
Thanks!

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Expect one or more service interruptions to the DEF CON Forums starting at around 8pm PDT and lasting up to 11pm PDT.
If all goes well, down-time could be much less than 1 hour.
Other DEF CON services are expected to have a 5 minute interruption some time between 8pm and 10pm PDT.

Thanks!

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Work on the forums I think is complete.
Some pkgs and libs upgraded.

Some changes:

• The RSS feed fixes
• Email Addresses over 100 characters cause issues.
• An error was shown when double-clicking on a topic title
• assorted bug fixes

Please let us know if you see issues.

Thanks!

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We have some planned maintenance on for DEF CON forums Saturday evening, probably starting at around 6pm PDT (Saturday, July 8, 2023.)
Down-time is expected to be about 1 hour where service won't be reliable.
Once maintenance is completed, I'll post another update.
Thanks!

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Forum maintenance should now be complete.

Please let us know if you see any new problems.

Thanks!

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We have scheduled forum maintenance tonight (Aug 3, 2023) starting at around 7pm PDT. Expect interruptions from 7pm through to midnight PDT. If all goes well, service should be working most of the time in that window.

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We have scheduled forum maintenance tonight (Aug 3, 2023) starting at around 7pm PDT. Expect interruptions from 7pm through to midnight PDT. If all goes well, service should be working most of the time in that window.

We are still completing some checks, but upgrades seem to be working fine. Please let us know if you see new problems.
Thanks!

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testing...

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Maintenance planned for Sunday night has been moved to Monday night.

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We have maintenance planned for Sunday morning starting at around 12:00am PDT. Down-time is scheduled for 1 hour, but will hopefully take less time than that.

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Testing comment.

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We have maintenance planned for Sunday morning starting at around 12:00am PDT. Down-time is scheduled for 1 hour, but will hopefully take less time than that.

Maintenance complete.

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Planned maintenance on the DEF CON Forums start 5pm PDT, Monday, October 2, 2023. Expected down-time to be around 1 hour or less.