Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-126761-20151020212734/@comment-1251315-20151021144421

Kirkburn wrote: 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. Along with the avatars bug, this popped up randomly across all of Wikia: Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.

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