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Wed 17 May 23:25

Downtime tonight

Some of you may have noticed that blogs was largely unavailable, or at least very slow, from about 10:30 pm this evening. We're having problems caused by the database that provides information on academic groups (such as which department you're in, or which modules you're taking) running very slowly at the moment.

To prevent this system from taking the whole of blogs down, as it was doing, we've temporarily disabled groups–related functionality. This may break some pages, particularly if you've subscribed to an entire module's or department's blogs in your favourites. The blog directory will also not work at the moment. However, the majority of pages should still work fine.

We should have a better solution in place tomorrow, once the maintainers of the academic groups database are back in and able to sort it out. Apologies for the inconvienience in the short term.


Chris May : 17 May 2006 23:25 |  Comments (3) |  Report a problem

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