Hello, Fellow Simmers! Just a Heads Up.
Vanilla, the company which hosts this forum have announced they will be doing a bit of maintenance on their network on Sunday, May 21st. During this time they have warned there may be connectivity issues; so heads up everyone!
Scheduled Maintenance
Disruptive Network Maintenance
Sunday, May 21, 03:00-04:00 EDT
A switch will be replaced in our hosting environment on May 21, 2017 at 03:00AM EDT. The maintenance window is scheduled for 1 hour. There will be connectivity loss during some of this time.
We apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.
Posted on May 5, 11:13 EDT
If you scroll down to the bottom of the forum page and look in the lower right-hand corner you will see the 'vanilla' logo. Click on it and it will take you to their page. Once you are on their page, scroll all the way to the bottom and click on 'Service Status' and it will take you to their service page where the announcement is.
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I have no memory of this place. Time to start anew I guess
If this is really only for one hour beginning at 3am EDT, I think I'll plan to sleep through it. Though of course I realize not everyone is in the same time zone, maybe we should all at least try to take naps at that time?
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Hi, Igazor!
Last maintenance, I found out after the fact I wasn't wrongfully banned! This is after I contacted EA and was told there was no scheduled maintenance and the site was working just fine; it was something wrong on my end. They suggested I contact my ISP to get to the root of the problem; which I did! The whole event was unnecessary and carried unwanted stress for me. So, I thought I would give a heads up to spare people what I went through in the event they had an issue with this site on that day.
With people coming on site from different places at different times, I thought I would post early enough for word to make its rounds but, the moderators of this site have other ideas which is why I am now reaching Simmers in as many ways as I can.
Hope you are having a great day!
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@MadameLee Just follow the instructions she posted to find it, then scroll a bit. Here: http://status.vanillaforums.com
> Try making a post on your page, that way people lurking through the activity feed can see it, and then they can tell their friends too. If you're part of a community, post in a general/chat thread (that already exists) as well to let people know. And you can put it in your signature too, that way people going by in threads can see it there as well. A good portion should learn this way, but it won't reach everyone. Hopefully the Guru's post several days ahead of time to avoid the panic.
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> @MadameLee Just follow the instructions she posted to find it, then scroll a bit. Here: http://status.vanillaforums.com
I'm afraid it's a false message because the OP doesn't have the title of "Guru" or "Staff" member. I can only trust one of them to give me that kind of message
> > @MizoreYukii said:
> > Try making a post on your page, that way people lurking through the activity feed can see it, and then they can tell their friends too. If you're part of a community, post in a general/chat thread (that already exists) as well to let people know. And you can put it in your signature too, that way people going by in threads can see it there as well. A good portion should learn this way, but it won't reach everyone. Hopefully the Guru's post several days ahead of time to avoid the panic.
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> > @MadameLee Just follow the instructions she posted to find it, then scroll a bit. Here: http://status.vanillaforums.com
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> I'm afraid it's a false message because the OP doesn't have the title of "Guru" or "Staff" member. I can only trust one of them to give me that kind of message
It is listed on the Vanilla website though, the people who host these forums....Regardless if it is fake or not, it is only for an hour. Just take it as a "maybe". I doubt it will affect us in the grand scheme of things anyways, but having a warning is nice.
@lisasc360 - This is how I originally saw it. The message is still there, I just checked. Did you scroll all the way to the bottom of their home page where the 'contact us' information is usually found? Click on "Service Status', it is there.
@MizoreYukii - I've placed this in other locations besides this forum where Simmers may see it. Message isn't fake. It is still on the Vanilla website under the section of 'Service Status'.
Madame Lee wrote:
I'm afraid it's a false message because the OP doesn't have the title of "Guru" or "Staff" member. I can only trust one of them to give me that kind of message
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It sounds like something I'll hardly notice if I even try to get on the forums at that time at all. Like I'd probably try to open the site, realise it wasn't working and go do something else for 5 minutes to see if it came back up quickly or not, and that 5 minutes would really be like an hour or 2 anyway lol. But it's nice to have the warning in case, or for people who it may affect more.
I'm still shaking my head at the "it might be false" accusations, and it's been like 3 hours since I first saw this. I can't even believe that with posted proof people still won't believe it. Either way it's news about a forum maintenance that may not even affect a very large part of at least the North American simmers, other timezones might notice it much more though. It's not like it's a groundbreaking EP announcement (if a sims 4 EP announcement could be called that) or something. I just don't get the big deal about that at all. Who's going to lie about a 1-hour forum maintenance, like really? And given the lack of information about the last sims forum maintenance, that horribly long ominous one where I found out HOURS later on facebook after several others started asking there that it was just a forum maintenance and no nobody was banned. Well, I'm not sure how much faith that gives me in the sims staff to deliver these messages to us. But whatever.
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Scheduled Maintenance
Disruptive Network Maintenance Scheduled for May 21, 03:00-04:00 EDT
A switch will be replaced in our hosting environment on May 21, 2017 at 03:00AM EDT. The maintenance window is scheduled for 1 hour. There will be connectivity loss during some of this time.
We apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.
Posted on May 5, 11:13 EDT
Before people call out others for giving false information why don't they do the check I did. The Vanilla Forum link is always at the bottom of the page. I've always found Forum info. helpful in the past.