Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-126761-20160215183428/@comment-126761-20160216143921

The maintenance period has now ended!

As a quick bit of background: these tests let us check how the site performs when there are serious server issues, so we can identify and fix failures. While we can do some testing in simulated environments, the complexity of a site like Wikia means some real-world testing is extremely helpful.

For example, the November 2015 test helped us identify that avatars would temporarily disappear in this kind of situation - this was subsequently fixed and did not occur this time.