November 20, 2008 at 10:37 am
New date for Answers planned maintenance and outage: 11/21
Hello, everyone-
Yahoo! Answers will be unavailable Friday, November 21, starting at 12:30 a.m. PST and lasting for several hours due to maintenance. This is the second of the two planned outages and will conclude the scheduled maintenance for the immediate future. If there is any change to this schedule, we will update the information here. Thanks for your patience!
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SO ANNOYING ANSWERS WILL BE UNDER MAINTENANCE ANSWERS WILL BE UNDER MAINTENANCE
If this outage is not supposed to start until 12:30AM PST on 11/21, then why is it not working now when the time is 11:16 AM on 11/20?
please sort out all these old questions and answers that are swamping the categories
Please update the Top Answerers board
I bet $500 they won’t updagte the Top 10 Answerers. And that SUCKS. 5 months and still not fixied!! And what’s their excuse? Didn’t even provide one.
PATHETIC.
I hope this ‘planned maintenance’ fixes, among other things, the fact that about July 2008 through Oct. 2008 your yahoo answers system would *not* accumulate ‘points’ for logging in every day, even though ‘remember me’ was unchecked and I logged out every time and tried it from more than one pc.
thank you for letting me know
The process of “maintenance” is a bit mysterious. We would love to have someone explain what is being done and what is being found. At 6am on Nov 18th, 1,000 questions appeared in the Business and Finance category. All dated 2-4 months ago. And they showed up at the end of the Open Questions. Were these the ones that people were saying had “disappeared” in July? Members were saying that using a % sign in your question would cause your question to “disappear”. Well, that obviously wasn’t true. But the questions really did disappear as soon as the Asker hit Submit. But some of these questions have answers and some don’t. It is an intriguing mystery. Where were they for 4 months? Why did they show up at the last pages of the Open Questions (i know they are dated 4 months ago but they could have gone to the front of the Home Page). Maybe we will never know. But someday someone from Yahoo Answers will talk to the Wall Street Journal and tell the world what was going on behind the scenes. People (us) love to know insider secrets. Won’t you tell us?
Exactly what is being updated on Yahoo Answers?
I’ve seen no changes except for these announcements that Answers will be under going repairs for the last few days.
Will the Top 10 finally be updated? Will the Report button finally be removed from the hands of “Trolls”?
Just thought I ask……
HEY!!! sup?
I haven’t been able to use Y!A since Tuesday’s planned maintence. All that I have access to is breather messages.
What exactly is this planned maintenance for?
New things added or just resting the server?
yahoo answers. when you do maintenance on the 21st will i still have my y! answers acount?
What time will the maintenance end (exact time)?
Thank you for letting us know. Also, want to let you know that there are issues still with resolved questions showing in the sections of questions that are open for answers. Also, some of the questions that are showing are ones from a month or more.
Finally, there are some questions that can’t be opened up when you try to click on them and end up with an error message of 404. Some of them are questions that may be open for 2 hours or more.
please give us a color option this puke green has to go
OMFG!! I’m bracing myself for tons of glitches as usual. I will ride it out though and not over load your staff with complaints. (my hubby does programming for a living and works at home, I see and appericate your teams efforts first hand answers team) PLC5 PLC2 C++ etc. blah blah blah. *sigh*
I feel compelled to add a stupid request if any Y/A team people actually read any of these comments.
I had a large number of fans and did not want anymore, However when I changed my profile all my fans, well, um vanished. I didn’t want them to go, yet I didn’t want anymore fans at that time.
If it is possible to, uhh “tweek” the allow fans to add me setting I’m sure lots of people/users woud like that.
If anybody actually reads this.
Thank you very much.
whats the matter u guys run out of coffee for ur coffee breaks, u mean if i go to Y!A ther wont be any one there to connect to, its been like that for a while hasnt it
BUT WHYYYYYYYYYY!!!
ITS ONLY 8:47 PM IN TEXAS
I don’t think Y!A cares about or reads comments. Much less appeals.
When can we have quick access to our favorite categories as promised a long time ago?
I have no comment
Ummm, why do you get angry at something you don’t even pay for? This is for fun, not life and death.
The time the maintenance was scheduled to start was EXACTLY the same time I got on to try to get some immediate help with my chemistry homework. Just my luck.
So, now it’s gonna be tonight huh? Does anybody have a clue what they’re doing? Gotta shut down…and did all night and way up into the morning. Well, gotta shut down again…no wait, let’s do it tomorrow…but while we’re at it…we need a breather.
okay, what next?
:smack:
Again, they don’t explain to the users the difference between maintenance and updates. The cutbacks at Yahoo must have impacted the customer service classes.
If the Top Answerers list are not being updated, then why don’t the team just say so, and do away with the lists altogether.
This is getting very interesting i hope you do lots of changes like we agreed on the forums.
Thanks a million.
Well,What is ever being updated?
As a above guy said,When will THE TOP 10 ANSWERERS page be updated,its not updated since a longgggggg time.Update it soon!
I seriously hope they update the Top 10. Otherwise, this “maintenance” is completely and utterly useless.
Typical of YA not to be very transparent about anything and not get it right the first or second time.
Folks at Yahoo, have you not noticed that most people who comment are upset?
Try doing what you say you’re gonna do and actually be accessible. You people terminate accounts indiscriminately and ignore appeals.
When will it be back? D=
man some of u are wingers!! find another website for a few hours or spend some time with some1…. its not the end of the wolrd!
PLEASE could u limit the amount of maintenance per month ?!
this site is always under maintenance and I dont see the changes. You guys only keep suspending and suspending accounts. I don’t care if you suspend mine for saying this comment. Go ahead and do it for the 42nd time, i know you like it!!!
so does that mean “if i posted a question….. i have to do it all over again!!!!!!!
or will it automatically be posted once things are finished!!!
This makes me sooo mad…I feel I could pick up a tank and throw it 10 miles!!! >_<
I think this is so annoying! This is like the second time I have been on this week while Yahoo! was doing mainenance! How many “breathers” do you need to take?! Get it together Yahoo! Your losing those who are interested in you site!
Nooooo! Please bring back Yahoo! Answers - this is the ONLY human interaction I have on Friday and Saturday nights!
THIS IS BULL CRAP WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE QUESTIONS AND STUFF ONLINE IF ITS ON THE ENTERNET IT MEANS ITS A WEBSITE WHICH MEANS FIX IT WHILE ITS UP AND RUNNING.., LIKE GOD.
Total crap. That does it, icing on the cake. I’m switching now to an alternative, Y! puts this down entirely too much, deletes any questions they find even mildly controversial, and takes coffee breaks entirely too often… WHAT KIND OF WEBSITE TAKES A COFFEE BREAK?!? ARE MODERATORS THAT IMPORTANT?
What? Again? They must really have a lot of work to do!
I posted a question about this (it got deleted–oh well!) and one of my contacts answered and said “let’s face it, Yahoo needs a check up from the neck up!” Lol! I thought that was hilarious!
Hey I just posted a question right before the site went under maintenance so what happens to my question, will it still remain on the question board as one of the last questions posted or will it fall to the bottom and just disappear? They charged me 5 points and if i dont get any answers due to the maintenance, I want my 5 points back!!
you should fix the “were taking a breather” bs
if you’re fixing stuff … because I’ll answer 3 or so questions and that usually pops up and its effing annoying. Its like wtf? I don’t want to take a breather!
and then I have to back space
Oh not again !!! Another ‘planned’ maintenance……i really don’t see the point, nothing ever changes…..
Gaaad this is so annoying………………………..
lmao at hunter
People are so upset over a shut down for a few hours. Go to bed if you’re that upset! The world isn’t ending and it’ll be up and running when you wake up. And it’s not friday night yet- only thursday night going into friday early morning.
Sooo annoying!!!
What will be updated?
Apparently, some people think “maintenance” means “software changes I desperately want”. It could more easily mean that Yahoo is adding cable backbones or physically moving servers. Get a grip, people. It’s just the net. Your life won’t end because you can’t answer inane questions for a couple of hours or get the changes you want. Sheesh.
c’mon did it hav to be today? Im doing a project!!!!!!
I heard that there are ways to trick the “answers” server into giving you 100 points per answer. I’m working on gettting the code so we’ll see if I can catch up to some of those that have already used it.
How convenient, and I am not even that paranoid. You buggers- yes, you are indeed ‘buggers’- consistently pick the absolute perfect moment in which to intervene, shame on you you Schweine-hundt. Keep up the good work but try to be less intrusive.
while i miss the opportunity to participate in Y/A, I do
appreciate maintenance. I think some users are really too wrapped up in the pointage issues. What about giving good answers to good questions. Yeah, thanks for doing maintenance on a very large website.
it needs a lot of breathers lmao
I work for the airlines and we often get expected outage alerts when the system will be down but they usually tell us how long we will be without? Why did not members be advised of the coffee break in advance? and what are you doing? inquiring minds want to know?
Please add a skating area under sports.
When someone has sent an individual response to yr yahoo mail acct asking a question why can’t it be answered just because YA is under maintenance
Holy cow. ITS A FEW HOURS. You can’t find anything better to do? I made a little list of things you might enjoy:
1) Go to an anger management class
2) Get a cat
3) GET A LIFE.
so yahoo answers wont be back now until later tonight euro time …
Wow! There sure is a lot of hostility here.
Yahoo provides a FREE service, and when they do maintenance and try to fix or repair problems to IMPROVE the FREE service people complain.
…I don’t get it.
Is it really that much of an inconvenience?
If so; maybe y’all should reconsider the priorities in your lives.
Quit whining about Y!A going offline for a couple hours for maintenance/updates. It’s immature and pointless- there is nothing wrong with fixing/updating the system.
How many “Coffee Breaks” are you guys going to take? On top of your seemingly endless “scheduled down time”, your website also frequently experiences glitches which, instead of showing up as proper error pages where a user can report the problem to your so-called ’staff’, also show up as “Coffee Break” messages. And before anyone gets all huffy about how “They’re providing a service for free!”, keep in mind that Yahoo makes thousands off of banner ads and paid e-mail accounts — the least they could do is fix their damn error pages or, better yet, fix the bugs in the system. I know these little “scheduled downtimes” aren’t doing anything to help, since this has been going on for months.
Google surpassed you jackasses in the race for net dominance for a reason — they actually understand the importance of pleasing not only their paying customers, but also the ones who utilize their free services. I’d buy a Google product in a heartbeat… but never anything from Yahoo.
Fix your damn glitches already, you incompetent morons.
Does anyone know when it is likely to be up & running again. It is 9am in the UK (your 12.30am PST is our 8.30am GMT) so it is not like it is through the night for us. I know it is not life or death but would just like to plan ahead.
oh, and how hard is it to tell us how long this is going to last and what changes we can expect?
sup RHH!! lmao……this outage is dumb
Sheesh people….relax.
Who really cares who the top ten answerers are? And who cares about 5 points that may or may not have been lost… seriously…no offence but just answer a few questions and you’ll be back up there.
Right…well that said….I’m bored, who wants to go get a drink?
More Breathers & Outages.
Suck!
That sucks. This is the only thing that keeps my awake on the graveyard shift. Guess I will just take a nap. Does it say anywhere when it will be working again?
WTF?!?! Why now?! I have some HW to do about marionettes, gawddammit all!
Thankyou for letting us Know.Best of luck!!
they always do this when the english are awake!! and the americans are asleep! its not fair!
I’m surpised there is so much negativity here. I’m sure the yahoo answers people have gone through what needs to be done and planned this out beforehand and not just do this outtage just to annoy people. Anyway, its only for a couple of hours, just don’t be off for too long alright because I really like using the site.
it says it will be out now for the rest of today for maintenence..
Omg, This is getting me angry. STOP DOING MAINTENANCES! >:(
pffffft
when will it be back up and running??
there is a source saying it will be down for many many hours now until further notice.
Maintenance:
1) The act of maintaining or the state of being maintained.
2) The work of keeping something in proper condition; upkeep.
With the big “old questions are back” error that was introduced the other day “repair” is needed, rather than mere maintenance.
So, I answered the question in time. Then y’all didn’t post it because it was (whatever your excuse was). So I edited it and fixed the problem only to be told you needed a breather. I copied my answer and held onto it until you got off your breather. Then reposted it only to be told you were doing maintenance. hmmm….patience lord, gimme patience.
why dont you who have Q’s just ask them here.?
lets try it. Whats Black and White and red all over.?
OMG!!! I just found out yahoo answers is my Crack!!!
I have questions and answers I need to know now..Ha Ha.
Curse you Y!A for doing this maintenace!
OBAMA 08 HAHAHAHA!
Now how long is ths going to take and what are you doing more exactly
Hi,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
waiting!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the time is whatever is says under my comment, and it comes bak on at 5 am
How VERY FRUSTRATING! There is NO description of what the hell ‘pst’ is for English peope and at 10 to 10 am I cannot use Y!A. How very very stupidly timed this was. This is STUPID beyond belief. Do maintenance, fine, but please, try and do it during the hours of least usage.
Brains, people, brains!
haha, i miss Y!A. i agree, it’s annoying, but the drama of these comments was really gratifying cos i couldn’t get onto the proper Y!A. i agree a little more transparency and notice would be helpful.
How about, while this planned outage is in place, adding some customisable themes like the new Hotmail recently got? The green is nice, just… A change could be nice.
Also, please can u fix it so my avatar shows ?
Actually as busy as this place gets and the fact that it’s free I’m perfectly happy with you taking a break now and then. Only question I have is why couldn’t you do it on a tuesday night or somthing instead of Friday? alot of people have friday off. But like I said it’s free and i keeps me busy when I feel like argueing over politics or I really have a question.
thanks guys!
Damn it Yahoo!
WHO BROKE ANSWERS!!!! wha wha wha
Adam begat Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuslah, Lamech, Noah, Shem, Arphaxyd, Shelah, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah, Abraham, Issac, Jacob also called (Israel), his sons were the 12 tribes>(Judah, Gad, Benjamin, Reubin, Asher, Napthali, Dan, Simeon, Issacher, Zebulun) + Ephraim and Manessah were Joseph’s two sons they each had property.. Levi’s tribe were priests and thus could not own land..
Judah>(jews)phares, esran, aaran, amenidbah, naasson, salimon, boaz, obed, jessie, david, solomon, roboam, eleazor, matthea, jacob, joseph, jesus>12 apostles>andrew, bartholomew, james elder, james younger, john, judas, matthew, phillip, simon/peter, simon/canaanite, thaddeus, and thomas.
The question had to do with the bible obviously. List genealogy from Adam to Jesus and the 12 tribes and apostles.
I recalled most of these in order from memory. Problem is there are two different trees in N/T and they are not exactly the same. But this one will do. It is the longer of the two. g~nite
hey it’s shitttttttttt man!! last time when it went under maintainence started after 3 hours late then mentioned time,,I donno how much time it’s going to take now..
ok so it didnt work,
A. a newspaper. (snoozpaper) zzzzzz
*Sigh* Patience is not my thing…
i do love it, i’m actually totally addicted to it after not using it for very long. but yeah, i get that ‘coffee break’ and ‘breather’ thing too after answering questions. i would prefer a more transparent error message, or something. and a little notice before maintenance if possible. i know i planned to spend the night on Y!A…!
SOOOO BORED!
I’M DYING!
HURRY IT UP, PLEASE!
Reading some of these comments made me wonder if yahoo stole their first born child
All this “maintenance”, yet nothing about the site ever improves. What a crock.
Geez, Relax it’s just one day.
This is disgusting.
People truly love to complain vehemently when they are given a free service.
I didnt even know there was work going on tonight. Well I hope what ever is getting fixed is a hell of a lot better then what they used to have.
OMGGGG!! Just get over itt! maybe it will give ya’lll geeks who have no life and are on awnsers all day to get out of your house for onceeee(:
STOP MOANING EVERYBODY!
Sites do need to be maintained you know. Still if you all could give us the link to your questions and answers website we could use that in the mean time.
Oh wait you dont have one so shut up
Diddums babies
Got out of bed. Made a pot of coffie. checked my e-mail. Which said I had a new answer ro my question. Only to find that YA is taking a breather ! Didn’t they get enough air last week ? Does any one know what my new answer is ? Argggg !
Why can’t you (ideally) provide the exact time of the start of the shut-down for all 24 time zones around the world? That really shouldn’t be that big a burden for the Yahoo staff; however the *omission* of this information obviously creates a significant burden and a large amount of confusion for many of the users of Yahoo Answers in the various and sundry countries and time zones where they reside! Could you not *at least* provide the time in a UMT reference format?
Does it really matter that much to our lives if yahoo have to update things, everything needs updating, and relifting, is it such a deal, that our lives won’t be able to function?? Probably not
ARGH. i have 5 best answers and couldn’t check out what the person who posted the question thinks! :((
MAINTENANCE MAINTENANCE MAINTENANCE.
BREATHER BREATHER! whats next, Tea break???
What is the point of all these maintenences if you don’t fix anything?! For pete’s sake you guys can’t even fix the littlest of problems. And why must you pick friday of all days to do this? Ugh.
They pick the only real free time I have to do there updating. It’s almost 6:00 AM Eastern time. Which is 3:00 AM Pacific time. Obviously they don’t consider any one in a different time zone to be of any signifigance.
when is it suppose to be working again? it’s 5am on the 21st.
Sorry, this is going to be a bit picky, but why other frequent sites don’t need such breathers and Yahoo!Answers do?
is this just for the whole day?
bored, cant sleep, need something to do.. Take your time Yahoo, I know what its like to have Asthma.
Thanks all, I have lots of fun comments to read while waiting for the maintenance to clear.
I certainly hope YA does something about the hired outsiders who patrol Automobile insurance and registration to leave their “get an insurance quote here” sites. These people are obviously being paid for each time they post a link to their website. it is beginning to be absolutley clogged with these postings. Since when was YA a place to advertise ? Fix it or lose an entire category
WOW YOU PEOPLE REALLY NEED A LIFE. Y/A IS DOWN AGAIN. NEWS FLASH! “OH, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO”. “I WANT MY POINTS BACK” THERE ARE OTHER WEB SITES BESIDE YAHOO. THAT’S WHAT I’M GOING TO DO TODAY. HAVE FUN WAITING ALL OF YOU. NEED SOME KLENEX?
It’s up and running now
I hope that we will find a big progress after this maintenance. It’s been a long while since my last visit here in Y!A.
People need love and peace!
P.S. I’m hoping for a 3D Yahoo!Avatar. Hehehe!
A-HAH, you apparently mean 21 NOV 2008, 0030 HOURS (or 12:30 AM), PST, USA! Well, why didn’t you say so? What about Yahoo7 Answers?
Um, I have a question for everybody.. I’ll give an IOU for the best answer.
When Yahoo! Answers are down where do you go (online)?
haha, One day out of many downtime is very good. Stop complaining and start googling questions.
i don’t work for yahoo but i know this,
I think every one here should make sure there times on there clock/watchs are not wrong and think about a few things. Like yahoo answers and anyother part of this website that is being updated.
1st thing people should think about is,
Why sit at you computer saying bad things about yahoo.com, yahoo answers, and any part of the yahoo website.
The people that work for yahoo or any other internet services sometimes have to work all day from like 5:00 am and get down past 12:00 am becasue thing come up or they get home at night eat dinner then about to get some sleep and they get a phone call and have go back into there work.sometimes there a sleep at get call to fix problems…
Not every that works for yahoo is there because they only work there for the money. some people work for the money and because they want make yahoo one of the nicest websites there to keep other people happy…
2cd thing,
How would you fell if someone was working as hard as they could and people said to them that they didn’t think that yahoo cared about them or any thing so they started doing updates to help and the website a better place…
3rd the more you wait for yahoo answers to come back online after the updates the it will takes because you wait your mind make it seem to take for ever because get bored other something if don’t got anything else you like to do the yahoo website why try going a very nice gaming website like runescape, other somethings there people 18 and older playing the games on websites and there are even people 18 and under…
My internet services is comcast,
I may have only free email account here and pay for a yahoo website domain but i know think about a lot of internet services like why work hard and more…
I have used 3 websites before that internets services i have been to the follow websites,
i have comcast, msn, and yahoo they are all very nice i use i only have 1 windows live account at msn.com for the windows messager only. then every account I have clost/deleted on msn.com.
then my other acccounts are yahoo which for emails domains, yahoo 360 blogs and yahoo answers.
then i have the other accounts at comcast which are used for email only.
one my main points to calm down,
go to others website and come here later side if you need and a walk come back here later when it work or do something on this website.
all should think how they would feel when giving a down coment, turn the shoe around, l,ike someone else mentioned it is free and what do you get free in this world?