8/18 Status Update, Scheduled Outages and Anniversary Time

Hi everybody...here's a status update. The Journals database seems to have settled down today; I haven't seen any flurries of e-mail or heard any screams of anguish. This is not to say that there aren't gremlins still roaming around, but we seem to be mostly better (but please let us know if you have any problems creating Journals or entries).

Also, Myrtle, the Journals display widget on the Journals main page, is back to displaying only one of each Journal that you own, not two.

Now that things have stabilized, we're going to have two scheduled outages coming up; the first is going to be in the early morning hours of Friday, 8/19, starting at 4AM EDT and scheduled to last until 6AM. Journals will not be available at this time -- you'll get the standard blue "not available" screen.  This is a regular maintenance outage, where they replace the hamsters in the servers, etc.

The second scheduled outage will be on Monday, 8/22, also starting at 4AM EDT and also scheduled to last until 6AM.  Now, I realize that this will bump up against some of the Journals 2nd Anniversary stuff that's going on, but this is an important update and we can't delay it, so sorry for the inconvenience.

Speaking of the the Journals Anniversary, AOL J-Lander Viviansullinwank is linking to some of the planned festivities, so check out her blog. And of course, in blogger John Scalzi's Weekend Assignment, he's asking you to pick your best Journal entry from the past year and share with the rest of the class.

While you're at it, at your request, we've updated the Journals Anniversary Graphic that was created last year; feel free to grab it and display it on your own Journals:



That's it for right now -- talk to you later. Thanks.  -- Joe