# "Down for maintenance"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-for-maintenance/40781>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [November 11, 2000, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-for-maintenance/40781 "2000-11-11T09:12:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![VaHermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ed655f/32.png) [@VaHermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VaHermit)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-for-maintenance/40781/1 "2000-11-11T09:12:54Z")

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I get home from work at 3:00 am. I have kept up with the forums even though I can’t post from work. One or Two threads run through my head and I mentally compose and recompose my reply. I come home, sign on and begin typing… finally satisfied with my post, I hit “submit”, only to be greeted with the news that the SD has been shut down for maintenance!

Now please understand I’m not really bitching, I love this MB and I think all the mods/admins do a fantastic job, But is there any rhyme or reasoning to the timing of the maintenance that I might have missed, ie… can I predict when this is going to happen or is it something that we “night people” will just have to live with?

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**Author:** ![Zoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecc23a/32.png) [@Zoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoro)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-for-maintenance/40781/2 "2000-11-11T15:26:36Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Homer in \***[3:30 till 3:35. Every. Single. Day.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=41022)**  
> \*\*I’m up late alot, and I’ve noticed that at exactly 3:30, and lasting until approximately 3:35, although sometimes longer, sometimes shorter, the board is down.
> 
> Why do you do this?
> 
> –Tim \*\*

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> \*Originally posted by TubaDiva \*  
> \*\*Just to piss you off. Why else? 🙂
> 
> I would guess it’s some kind of automated routine maintenance.
> 
> your humble TubaDiva  
> Administrator  
> \*\*

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**Author:** ![VaHermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ed655f/32.png) [@VaHermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VaHermit)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2000, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-for-maintenance/40781/3 "2000-11-11T21:31:48Z")

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**Zoro** , thanks, I’ll try to avoid that window and see what happens. By the way, nice to meetcha.

Hermit