We’ll be taking Grupthink down tomorrow around 11am E (3pm GMT). The downtime could last a few hours as we run upgrades on the live database. We will have a better estimate of downtime duration tomorrow when we see how fast the update runs, so I’ll post new information here as it becomes available to me.

This release includes some major back-end improvements that will help performance and future development, plus a whole administrative interface that will help us manage the community better! Functionally, Grupthink.com will be largely unchanged, aside from some bug fixes and minor UI updates.d

* UPDATE * 11:00a Sunday MDT
As planned, the upgrade on Grupthink.com is underway.

* UPDATE * 1:00p Sunday MDT
We are now testing the new code in a stage environment and ironing out any kinks we find. If things go smoothly, we could be up again in about an hour. However, we are prepared to spend a few more hours on the upgrade if needed.

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