2016-10-29

29 October 2016: Planned Maintenance — Expect Outages

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by Tim Widowfield

Hello, Vridarians. We’re about to undergo some changes here. You will likely see rather long outages this weekend as we move to a new platform.

–Tim

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Mark Erickson says:

2016-10-30 12:44:33 GMT+0000 at 12:44

Awesome Tim, I’m sure the changes will be great – once they start working. Good luck with the heavy lifting and thank you. I have been away from the site for a while, but I will catch up with the Erhman posts soon. And hi Neil.

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29 October 2016: Planned Maintenance — Expect Outages

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