Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26103034-20160829135838/@comment-26103034-20160829191430

If you saw the warning, then you would fully understand it, yeah, but I know a lot of people don't pay much attention to the squares, since they normally just advertise some article that isn't too interesting. Also if you were asleep or busy then, especially as there was no easy way to find out what was happening once it had started, you had no warning.

I just think that for all those people who didn't see the warning, either because they didn't notice it or weren't online, it would have left them lost and with no way to find out what was going on, unable to do whatever they do on wikia, whether it's going on the chat, spending time discussing or roleplaying on the forum, writing blogs, etc, and, y'know, while no lasting harm is done, I wouldn't think it'd be that hard to leave the warning on for anonymous users and during the downtime, or to set the login so that it explained what was going on and linked to the thread.