Update Monday Morning
Tomorrow there’ll be a site wide update. It’ll happen in the morning, 9-12 EST.
Shouldn’t have any problems, but hey, you never know.
Update basically covers three things:
1. Email Notifications - you’ll finally be able to get notified when you get new answers. Shouldn’t affect the regulars, since you guys check the site daily, but will be useful to new users, who didn’t catch the SG bug yet.
2. Related Tags 404 Errors - don’t think many of you saw this, but right now if you use related tags to search or narrow down the results, the site breaks. Should be fixed with the update.
3. Caching of static pages - all the about, and contest pages are currently being cached very aggressively. Sure saves a little on bandwidth costs, but it causes a headache. You’ve probably seen some of those pages, as if you were logged in as me. Or were randomly “logged out”, when in reality you were still logged in. This issue should be fixed with the update.
You shouldn’t notice any down time, since the site will be updated via load balancer trickery, but if you do, now you know why.
-Andrew
