Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment--20151004230850/@comment--20151007191153

To be clear, the read-only time on Monday was an emergency measure that we enacted due to time constraints and the nature of our technical problems. There are two types of lockdowns: emergency and planned maintenance. In cases of emergency, we obviously don't have the luxury of communication planning. However, we have a clear action plan that relies heavily upon posting on our Facebook and Twitter pages to keep the community informed. There is no way to communicate these outages on the Wikia site itself because of the database read-only status.

Since both situations this week - a compromised staff account causing some URL havoc on Sunday and resulting effects on Monday leading to downtime - have been resolved by our staff, and we believe the site to be stable, I am going to go ahead and close this thread. We are continuing to investigate the cause of this incident and we will communicate more about this incident with our community later today in our weekly tech update.