December 17, 2008 at 11:10 am
Planned Maintenance and Answers Outage on 12/18/08
Hello, everyone-
Yahoo! Answers will be down on Thursday, December 18, starting at 1:00 a.m. PST and will last a few hours. Answers will be unavailable during that time. If there is any change to the schedule, we will inform you here with updates.
If you’re looking for something to do during the downtime, why not check out some of these pages:
- Discover our Winter Holiday Traditions page
- Find out what the buzz is all about
- Get your game on at Yahoo! Games
- Watch some cool free videos
- Join a group
- Read about parenting, healthy living, or fashion and beauty on Shine
- Plan a winter getaway
- Shop for holiday gifts
**UPDATE: The outage is now over. Many thanks for your patience on this! **
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What was the last maintenance about? I noticed the front page of Yahoo changed a few times but I still have the old one. And what’s going to change this time?
Of course… Yahoo! Answers has to be down on my Sweet Sixteen. Just my luck.
Will you be replacing the Community Moderation system? That’s the one thing that needs fixing the most. Everything else seems to work okay. I have been seeing fewer “coffe breaks” and the questions are posting faster since the last maintence outage. Community Moderation as it currently is is a big joke.
i hope this time the maintenance keeps my pages from freezing
What are you doing to the website? Thanks.
Hey, how long’s this thing going to last? Btw why does it always feel like the last minute when something comes up? I didn’t wanna lose 5 pts. lol.
Can you somehow filter out all these answers that are the exact same no matter what the question and have links to questionable websites. I have noticed them more and more each day.
Please finally update the Top Ten Answerers in every category, and remember, “Diet and Fitness” deserves 10 too, not 9. Thank you. -LL
i read that you are going to be down for awhile. while your at it why don,t you get rid of all the commercials that keeps popping up all the time. i would appreciate it and i expect others on here would too.
this is disgusting!!! i have lost windows instant messenger etc, not to mention time and money!!! Yahoo is constantly having problems!!! i am so frustrated i feel like throwing the pc out the window! You guys are totaly incapable of keep ing things correct! sick of it!!!!!!!!!!! shari
Ohh great as i as just trying to answer a question…
i hate it when you do this >:(
woopdedoo its the middle of the frkn night
Are you guys finally gonna fix the leaderboards? Or at least temporarily remove them?
How long will the site be down?
All day?
So, at some point, are you going to fix the “Top Ten” answerers? Some of these scores are almost a year old!
I know this is a blog but im studying can someone help?
What is Immanuel Kant’s view of natural philosophy vs. moral philosophy?
This may be a final essay question. Thanks!
Thank you for letting us know. I don’t think I will be on Yahoo Answers at that time.
I can access Answers, but when I try my e-mail, all I get is a blank page.
I think they adding new images for Christmas and change there header and i think its takes more 1 hour
OOOOOK
weel, last time it took all day, how much time does it tkae now!. And why do u guyz keep on doin mant. comon change some thing and make new section’s.
Oh well. At least now I have nothing to keep me from going to bed..
Caroline, why would you want to spend your sweet 16 on Answers?
Too bad. My day would be boring without YA. Let’s listen to some cool music then!
Maintenance Again… this is becoming a weekly thing now ok for those in PST but what about is GMT right in the middle of our day
I hope they make the leveling up system more easier
Why do you do these “maintenance” things? I have yet to see fewer problems after each “maintenance”, and continue to run into little “coffee breaks”. And “moderation” of the site still sucks.
omgosh please fix the problem!
What is 1pm PST? It’s 8:15pm here in Sydney, Australia now. My son watching movie & I’m bored.
just as I needed help with something, the site went down
This seems to be happening more frequently. And the last time, several undecided questions just disappeared.
Oh i noticed it came up as 1:16am so looks like I will be bored for several hours
You guys could warn a girl.
Yesterday i received unbidden a window that listed all my questions and comments back to Feb. 2008. i have several questions about it. What is the advantage for me if i were to subscribe to this feed? While it is a good way to reference my questions and comments (to have it all together in one place), won’t it take up a great deal of space in my storage? Is subscribing to this feed without cost or obligation? Why didn’t the feed include all of my questions from the time i joined YA in Oct. 2007? Thanks for answering.
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oh yes i definitely enjoy when there are posts about yahoo answers hoing down for a couple of hours!
Just curious as to when as part of your update that you will be updating the top 10 in each category. i’ve been asking about the basketball section for nearly a year now- it’s been a long time since that has been updated and i’ve seen other sections that do get updated… so just wondering what’s up with that?
very pleased to quest page open
Routine maintenance is obviously needed but why so often I wonder?
The only thing that does not work is the moderation which is a joke. Whilst I accept that mistakes are made, they should be rectified in the appeals process and I have never know this to happen.
I post a question such as ‘ How many people regularly go to church and what will they get out of it?’ and it gets removed for not being a question.
I appeal, pointing out that it is indeed a question if you are applying normal rules of grammar and await reinstatement. All I get back is a computer generated message telling me it has violated and is not a question.
I suggest the only thing wrong with this site is the moderation that is so bad, it is almost not worth posting. What level of education is required for the job of moderator, or is it, as I suspect, computer generated? Fuelled by how many complaints you get from the people who wished you hadn’t posted the question.
Moderation needs far more improvement
Why are the top ten answerers not updated anymore? With all this maintenance you think it would be something easy to do. What happened to the monthly updates?
If anyone is missing the comments they posted, Yahoo has been censoring the blog for any criticism.