Scheduled maintenance and what will be unavailable

The reason scheduled maintenance is hard to answer is that the obvious measurement and the relevant quantity are not the same thing, and substituting one for the other is silent.

Narrowing post #13, because the general version has more than one answer.

Staff announcements, policy changes, and scheduled maintenance. Read-only except for questions clarifying what was announced.

That is consistent with mine, for whatever one more account is worth.

Scheduled maintenance is one of those subjects where the general answer and the answer for a specific case diverge, and the thread will go in circles until someone says which one is being asked for.

Post #47 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction.

The rare case here is the one that costs somebody a week, though, and the common case costs everyone ten seconds. I think the trade is clearly correct.

Not the whole picture, but the part of it I can speak to.

One question about the transition rather than the policy: what happens to topics that are in flight when it takes effect? The announcement is clear about posts and silent about drafts.

I would put this at better than even and not much better.

Answering the question post #79 raises rather than the one it answers.

Two questions I would want answered before drawing anything from the scheduled maintenance data above: how were the cases selected, and what happened to the ones that dropped out.

The rare case here is the one that costs somebody a week, though, and the common case costs everyone ten seconds. I think the trade is clearly correct.

Happy to be the one who is wrong here if it settles the question.

This follows post #122 rather than contradicting it.

The claim about scheduled maintenance upthread is stronger than its source supports. I have read the source. The source says "associated with" and the post says "causes".