Major Site Maintenance Action

Update  07-19-2009 5:31PM EST: First off sorry for the slow blogs the last two days.  Yesterday a script cleaning data slowed it down more then expected.  Today replication broke, due to an error, and wasn't caught right away.  So blogs should appear later tonight for everyone. Second, you may notice your game list changing.  Games may disappear, or scores might be wrong.  We are working on migrating everyone's list to the new structure and that is a side effect.  Things are going well, but the migrations are slow, so I will post a schedule of what things look like this week in the next day or so.  Getting closer!

Update  07-16-2009 2:47PM EST:  We just squashed another problem with older data, and getting closer to the next step.  Tonight we have to do some data updates, which is going to crunch for a while and slow the server down.  So things might be a little slow when it hits the front end, but it should be late when traffic is lighter.  No ETA yet when things will be back to normal, but leaderboard and badges will be down through the weekend for sure.

Update  07-14-2009 11:50PM EST:  Things are going okay, we ran into a few surprises but nothing dire.  Tomorrow all jobs will run as we need to update some of the scripts to account for findings, so leaderboards and badges will update (game pages will be a partial update).  Then on Thursday we will start maintenance up again.  We will have a better idea of where we stand Friday, but I suspect we will need to leave badges and leaderboards off through the weekend.  Thanks again for your patience.

Original Post:

We are doing some maintenance and changes on the back end processes and databases starting tonight.  This maintenance will take about 5 days, but we can't say for sure and will try to keep this updated with progress.

The following things will be affected.  They will not update at all during maintenance and might be empty or gone at times during the end of the maintenance.

• Leaderboards
• Badges
• Game Pages
• Members Games Lists/Widgets

Everything else should run as normal, that means Blogs, Challenges, Streaks will not be affected and will be business as usual. 

If you notice anything weird outside of the areas being worked on let us know.  Best to post questions or concerns in the support forum and myself (or a 3VCE giving me a helping hand) will keep on eye out.

When the maintenance is done, any past game name changes should be fixed.  Then after about a day we will push out a genre update the 3VCEs worked on.  Then after a couple more days possibly a couple new badges based on suggestions as well.  No other major changes, but streamlining things and cleaning data.  Hopefully getting a few long outstanding issues fixed up.

Thanks for all the support and patience people!

Comments

[Davem3 TF]

awesome

[Mr Achievement]

I love the Title of this blog... Good luck with everything. =)

[Frostbite]

So are we going to get any kind of updates on how things are going?

[Lawl Pwned]

Boo. I miss seeing my game feed up to date.
Update after weekend maintenance bashing?