Scheduled Downtime January 29-30 (for up to 2 hours)

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iNaturalist will be offline for up to 2 hours beginning at 9pm Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8) on Wednesday, January 29 (that’s UTC 05:00 on January 30). Click to see in your local time.

During this time, you will not be able to post observations from the mobile apps or interact with the website or API in any way. The iNatForum will still be active.

The timing will likely be most inconvenient for those in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. We apologize in advance for anyone who is inconvenienced. Please make other plans during that time.

Similar to past scheduled downtimes, this maintenance is required to better manage iNaturalist’s growing dataset but these behind-the-scenes improvements to the database will not be visible.

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Wednesday is Lunar New Year. Traditionally, cleaning and maintenance is avoided on that day. You don’t want to sweep your luck away!

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Some might say I traditionally avoid cleaning and maintenance most days! :slightly_smiling_face:

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Lucky guy!

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What other plans could one possibly have?? ;-) Seriously though, thanks for the warning.

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Thanks for the heads up! I’ll be sleeping!

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I’m rarely on at that time, so that’s good.

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I’m awake, and iNat’s back! I just have less notifications…

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Downtime hasn’t happened yet, it starts in just under 12 hours from now.

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For me, it’s 3:30 to 5:30, and that’s when I use it most! Now what will I do? :(

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I don’t know, should I write here, make feature request, or even PR to the repo. Also I don’t know if it was discussed earlier.

Can you add a link to the forum on the “iNaturalist is Catching Some Zs” screen? Just static link to the main page.

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