Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26103034-20160829135838/@comment-26402117-20160829170936

The squarish warning was a sitewide notification that was broadcasted for the two hours before it got rolled out. The notification also warned the downtime would be today (with a link to the thread giving full warning in my opinion), but probably doesn't appear to anonymous visitors which we all became seeing as the site was uneditable.

Having a modal to warn about downtime is probably only a good idea if the wikis became unreadable, but only being unable to edit, use personal CSS or upload files for an hour isn't too prohibitive. I mean, PSN's downtime is on some next level.