Neopets Down For Maintenance TONIGHT!

[hrtbrk]

Neopets will experience downtime later this evening, beginning at 9PM NST and lasting until around 1AM NST (February 6th) to sync their servers.

[GillyTook]

Will it actually be until 1AM, though?  Or will it be like last time when everyone was scrambling to get dailies done before everything reset streaks?

[Pascalla]

Where do they even make note about these maintenance runs? That I only find out about them when they're happening makes it seem like wherever they're saying it, if anywhere, is a bad place to put it. I did my dailies, thankfully, but as someone who logs in for the day near midnight this sure would have been not-so-great if I hadn't done them at 12 AM-ish today. I'm not seeing posts on the few Neopet social media accounts or anything either. Additionally, having the maintenance screen/pop up actually note the expected downtime would have been a better option. Nothing against TDN, of course, but shouldn't have your users have to go to fan sites to get information like this.

I used to think the site I'm usually on was maybe even excessive about how they let us know when they'll be doing maintenance, but now I see I've had it good. I'll have to thank them.

[GillyTook]

@Pascalla  I think I saw on reddit that they tend to make them somewhere on the neoboards or one of their social medias that you're not allowed to talk about on the boards.  Makes sense!

[Pascalla]

@GillyTook Thank you. Oh gee, I didn't even realize/remember we can't mention the socials on the Neoboards, but you're right. Not sure if it's typical, but they didn't seem to post it on their socials anyway. I see they posted it on the NeoBoards though. Unfortunately, that's not an area of the site I frequent and is not too helpful for when the site is undergoing the actual maintenance.

It might be a lot more helpful if they notified users in a way that's a lot more visible. They have a lot of options for that. Not sure why they haven't been doing that. Something definitely worth addressing!