Small PF update this weekend

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We'll be updating PF software this coming weekend. Hoping to fix some pesky bugs! Shouldn't be down for more than 15-20min. Likely Saturday morning.
 
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Old-timers: remember the drill. We need to establish an online muster point where we can gather while the update takes 2 days instead of 2 hours.

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I've taken the generator out of storage and checked it out, filled the bathtubs with water, full tank of gas in the truck.... hoping for the best, prepared for the worst.
 
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DaveC426913 said:
Old-timers: remember the drill. We need to establish an online muster point where we can gather while the update takes 2 days instead of 2 hours.

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You're not kidding, the mentors back in the day used to have a secret yahoo group during problem updates lol
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
Shouldn't be down for more than 15-20min. Likely Saturday morning.
That's like "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." :smile:
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
You're not kidding, the mentors back in the day used to have a secret yahoo group during problem updates lol
And a secret chat for the Saturdays (or was it Sundays?) when the then PF chat was of. It was giving people random names though, like Stinky Elf, so the first stage was to guess who is who.
 
Something seems to be up with the CSS (if you weren't aware). It's been looking like this for the last half hour
Screenshot of a Physics Forums mobile page showing a broken layout with a small garbled Greek letter and symbol, unstyled buttons, and overlapping text.
 
Forum post header showing username berkeman with Mentor badge, post number #36, timestamp Today 4:11 PM, 66,612 messages and 18,823 likes, and the reply asking where the format was seen and whether it is a phone screenshot.

Was that for me? Firefox does that both on my office laptop/win10 and on my PC/Opensuse at home...
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
what will be fixed?
topic link is ...physicsforums.com/threads/small-pf-update-this-weekend...
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