NEW: We have completed the migration to Kubernetes and are live on the new infrastructure as of midnight ET / 9pm PT. Please keep us apprised of anything strange that you see in the comments or via contacting the help desk. Thanks so much, again, for your patience!
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As you might remember, we attempted some back-end site maintenance work on April 19 that didn’t quite go as planned.
So we’re going to try again—hopefully, with much better results!—on Sunday, June 9, at 10 PM ET / 7PM PT. The site may be down for as long as four hours as a result.
For the technical folks, this change is intended to address some decaying site infrastructure that we are replacing with a move to Kubernetes. For the non-technical folks, we are replacing some of the scaffolding that supports the site. But don’t worry! This won’t change your user experience. If everything goes as planned, everything you see – fonts, navigation, the front page, comments, and everything else – will look and function the same.
Please help us out. If you notice any strange behavior with the site, please drop a comment in this post for us or reach out to the help desk (link in top navigation).
Thank you for your patience.