Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-126761-20151020212734/@comment-126761-20151021143349

The maintenance period is over, though we are investigating some lingering oddities (avatars not showing, odd error messages). We'll get them sorted.

Regarding improving how we notify users about these: when they the maintenance should be very short, it's not generally worth notifying everyone a long time in advance since 99.9% won't be affected. That said, we certainly have room to do better - we'll discuss it.