Planned outage

copied from Stephanie's blog

Starting at midnight tonight EST (9pm PST) [5 am BST Wednesday] the site may be inaccessible for approximately two hours. The downtime will most likely be sporatic, but you will have some difficulty reaching pages for a while.

The downtime is necessary due to some work that the engineering folks will be doing to improve performance of the site.

Again - the site will probably be DOWN from 12 am until 2 am EST tonight (Wednesday morning, 5 to 7 am BST). Should you have problems accessing the site after 3 am or so (although you should be sleeping...) please let us know.

As always, thanks for your understanding. We know what a pain it is when we take the site down, but it is necessary to keep performance up.