#downtime — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #downtime, aggregated by home.social.
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Breaks between meeting sessions should be longer than zero minutes. How long should they be? The answer depends on several factors…
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/05/give-me-a-break
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Breaks between meeting sessions should be longer than zero minutes. How long should they be? The answer depends on several factors…
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/05/give-me-a-break
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Breaks between meeting sessions should be longer than zero minutes. How long should they be? The answer depends on several factors…
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/05/give-me-a-break
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Breaks between meeting sessions should be longer than zero minutes. How long should they be? The answer depends on several factors…
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/05/give-me-a-break
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Breaks between meeting sessions should be longer than zero minutes. How long should they be? The answer depends on several factors…
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/05/give-me-a-break
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Mobile Money Ghana announce 5hours planned downtime from 12am to 5am on Sunday 10 May
#Connected #Downtime #Mobilepayments #MTN #MTNGhana #MTNMoMo
https://gtechbooster.com/mobile-money-ghana-announce-5hours-planned-downtime-from-12am-to-5am-on-sunday-10-may/ -
Claude.ai and API Unavailable
https://status.claude.com/incidents/2gf1jpyty350
#HackerNews #ClaudeAI #API #Status #Incident #AI #Technology #Downtime #APIOutage
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Rebranding Downtime into the Fourth Pillar it deserves to be
D&D and its variants are often referred to as “combat simulations” or “tactical combat games” or “dungeon crawling miniature games” in a somewhat dismissive way that seeks to reduce the other things that players have their characters do during sessions and campaigns.
These mostly heroic characters do have a lot of combat support. A vast majority of the rules support violence portrayed in what is now six-second rounds. Combat’s scenes in 5th edition are done in expanded time taking many real minutes for less than thirty seconds of cinematic action.
But combat is not all of modern Dungeons & Dragons. Other pillars are supported.
The three main pillars of D&D play are social interaction, exploration, and combat.
5.2.1 SRD / Wizards of the Coast / CC BY 4.0Social interaction in the modern game is mostly done in scenes lasting a few minutes. These scenes take place in real time at the table. Ritual spells do not make sense in the context of social interaction because of the nature of social interaction. Other spell casting is less frequent than in combat, while it can still fit. The main engine of social interaction within the rules are skills (Charisma, Wisdom and Intelligence) and a light dusting of feature from class, archetype, feat or species.
Taking a longer period of time, historically measured in ten-minute chunks, is Exploration. This is abstracted in an opposite fashion from Combat in that where combat sees time expanded, Exploration compresses it. Some, but not all travel makes sense as exploration. Rituals are frequently used. Spells are common. Certain spells and features may make classic exploration challenges meaningless (Goodberry or Find & Remove Traps). But Exploration, the delve into dungeons, the searching the wildes, the entry to a wondrous temple or the site of a majestic floating city is and always will be a part of the D&D genre.
There’s a fourth pillar.
It’s so hidden, it’s not even part of the SRD.
— Downtime —
(Arthurian symbolism by That Girl from Avalon)Between the 2014 core books, and Xanathar’s there are 37 sometimes overlapping options for what can be done with Downtime. The 2024 core books and the Forgotten Realms expansions add many Bastion and Crafting options onto this.
Most downtime choices are measured in weeks, though small projects are within days. These scenes are time-compressed frequently taking only a roll or two per character to resolve as weeks, months, maybe even seasons pass. In film, TV and books the montage is how downtime is presented. Pick your favorite heroic montage — we’ll get back to it.
Every class supports downtime activities in some capacity, especially with the 2024 ruleset adding on Bastions. Skill challenges, as adopted to 5e by some homebrewers, make sense as resolution systems for downtime, exploration and sometimes social events.
But downtime is often viewed by players and DMs as accounting, boring academics, spreadsheet management.
Even the name is boring.
Downtime has a branding problem
Stories and adventures are an assembly of beats, eventually leading to rising action, climax and resolution. There are sometimes downbeats, setback.
Downbeats.
Who wants downbeats? Who wants downtime.
Even how downtime is presented, either by name or by style of play (Bastions and Crafting), it is shown as an appendage with little support. Downtime is a thing to rush past, not to enjoy.
A Bastion offers a character temporary refuge from the dangerous world of adventuring, and it provides opportunities for a character to craft magic items, conduct research, harvest poisons, build ships, and carry out a range of other activities.
2024 Dungeon Master’s GuideHeroes do not want a refugee from danger!
They do want the ability to craft magic items, research mysteries, harvest fantastic elements, carouse, gamble, set sail across an astral sea, or plot the overthrow of a corrupt regime.
Those are all upbeats, not downtime.
Downtime also a massive part of the game
Acquisitions Inc combines D&D and modern franchise capitalism for fun. It contains franchise rules. It also lists every one of the 2014 options in downtime at its point of publication.
These choices are things heroes do!
The options above belong at your table. At some tables the options in Dragon Heist, Acq Inc, Tasha’s (Group Patrons), Strixhaven (schooling) and other official and unofficial books expand your campaign in ways that make sense too.
Think of your favorite montage scenes in your personal Appendix N. Do they involve plotting the overthrow of a corrupt leader? Do they involve building a guild? Do they involve carousing to gain information? Do they involve long study to craft a previously unknown spell? Do you have a favorite montage that includes sowing rumors? Or mayhap one that involves training for new skills? You probably have one where the heroes prepare for a test of skill, chance or magic?
In traditional D&D that’s downtime.
In the fiction these things advance the plot and add excitement.
Downtime has a branding problem.
That’s why you are going to start scheming.
Scheming
From the 2014 DMG as an example of studying Lore- making intelligent, secret plans, often to deceive others
- behaviour or activities that involve making clever secret plans intended to deceive people
In British English schemes aren’t necessarily deceptive or secret. They are plots and advancements, plans and procedures. They are the many days, weeks, months processes.
Both versions work for modern D&D, but the American concept of intelligent, secret plans especially fits my preferred themes.
Why Scheming? Other considerations
Concerns – while this captured the idea of the character being in charge of things it felt less involved in the plot and continued the ‘set aside’ concept of Downtime.
Occupations – but who wants to do work? That’s spreadsheet life, not plot advancement and fantastic discoveries.
Rejuvenation – is wonderful for healing, but poor for plot advancement and heroic actions over time.
Strategic play – this conveys the proper tone and your schemes should be strategic while other pillars are tactical.
Schemes involve rising action by heroes and antiheroes to get ready for the messy work that needs doing. Schemes are active plots and machinations (maybe that belongs above). Sometimes they are down notes, sometimes they are upbeats. They build rising action.
Unifying disparate subsystems into Scheming
Oracles ready to provide advice after a sacred rite (Photo by Dave Clark)Crafting, Bastions, Franchises, Group Patrons, Schooling, Carousing, Sacred rites, Grand rituals, Research, Business operations, Running a faction, Guild matters, Training militias, Communal defense, Grand voyages ….
The list goes on.
When these are schemes they are multi-check montages where failure matters and the results fuel the story. They either help or hinder a character or party on their quest. They take time.
Whatever you take to calling downtime (and do include Bastions and Crafting when appropriate for your campaign) you need to unify this set of systems together.
- Describe the quest with the amount before the pace of action changes again. Set the expectation that there is time to Scheme.
- Players describe their goals using the above activities or a combination thereof to achieve that goal within the amount of time (measure in weeks).
- Narrate the results of the actions. These may require skill checks, use of various features or cooperation in the party. If there isn’t meaningful failure there is not a check unless extraordinary success matters. Use an odd number of checks (3 or 5 are best) mimicking skill challenges or use group checks if everyone is cooperating. Or combine the two.
- Move on from the Scheme into action with a faster pace taking note of how much time passed and what that means for those that oppose the group.
If that resolution system feels familiar it is because it is the basic rhythm of play at the table, while capturing the montage and compressed time nature of a Scheme.
It’s not a scheme if the activities are passive. It’s not a scheme if it doesn’t advance a quest or plot. It’s not a scheme if it is fast. It’s not a scheme if it is tactical.
Frankly it’s not worth doing at the table if the activity is passive and/or doesn’t advance the quest
Schemes are strategic, long-term, montage-y activities that advance the action fitting a rising narrative building the eventual heroes towards a climax. They should not be the climax, nor the resolution. A denouement can be a scheme as it preps for the next campaign.
Ways to add Schemes to common campaign types
Try working in schemes into your campaign. Use a timehop that creates challenges because the enemy is building a grand army. The timehop also gives the heroes time to train a militia (as in Wheel of Time).
In a heist adventure use a scheme as the way to collect the necessary materials or information, setting up the background before the strike on the location (as the Crows in Shadow & Bone).
Maybe the scheme is to collect a group of allies to help the party cross a perilous ocean or astral sea, commissioning a ship and its crew (as in One Piece).
Play a scheme at your table inspired by the fictions that inspire your D&D.
#Bastions #DMAdvice #DnD #downtime #DungeonsAndDragons #GMAdvice #MilitiaActions #patternOfPlay #PlayingDD #RPG #ThreePillarsOfDD #TTRPG -
🚨 BREAKING: GitHub's status page is down while trying to notify you that #GitHub is down. 🛠️ But hey, you can subscribe to be notified when their broken notifications are finally fixed! 📩 Good luck entering an OTP when the real issue is them just trying to stay online. 😂
https://www.githubstatus.com #Downtime #GitHubStatus #TechHumor #DevOps #NotificationsFail #HackerNews #ngated -
New feature coming soon to your favourite #AI service, #Downtime.
(Remember it’s a feature not a #bug.)
#Computing / #Uptime / #usability -
PostgreSQL production incident caused by transaction ID wraparound
#HackerNews #PostgreSQL #transactionID #wraparound #productionincident #databaseissues #downtime
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Anyone who still needs a metric ton of mental sh*tload today, just take a quick peek into the depths of human existence and check out the comments under the latest official Bluesky post on Twitter / X. It's so pathetic.
https://x.com/bluesky/status/2044842503388426263
#bluesky #status #outage #downtime #Atmosphere #ATProto #opensocialweb
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Currently https://fedidb.org redirects to https://fedidb.com which gives:
"Something went wrong
We couldn't load the server data you requested. Here's what happened:
NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource."Just a temporary glitch?
@dansup ?
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Looks like #developers got their #AWS US_East moment too.
#Google #Antigravity #softwaredevelopment #AI #downtime #outage
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anyone also having #issues or seeing a #downtime #error when trying to log into #discord ? especially either on the #browser than on own desktop?
wer sieht noch 'ne meldung bei discord, als hängt dort grad was schief statt dass es den #login lädt?
#computer #fehler #fehlermeldung #chat #chatting #tech #technik
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GitHub’s downtime is bad, but uptime numbers can be misleading. It’s not as bad as it looks; more like a D than an F. https://evanhahn.com/in-defense-of-githubs-poor-uptime/
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Five science-based reasons to provide white space at events that incorporate biology, physics, physiology, social science & neuroscience
#meetings #breaks #downtime #socials #EventDesign #events #eventprofs
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Breaks between meeting sessions should be longer than zero minutes. How long should they be? The answer depends on several factors…
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/05/give-me-a-break
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You arrive at the office, coffee in hand, ready for another smooth day in IT —
only to find a small construction crew casually digging up the sidewalk.Sure, that’s exactly where all your critical data cables run, but it’s fine.
They must have the schematics.Then it happens.
Internet? Dead.
Phones? Gone.
Redundant links? About as redundant as your disaster recovery budget.
Systems? Screaming in alarm.Want more chaos like this?
Tune in to “IT Horror Stories with Jack Smith”https://youtube.com/shorts/eE8CKP7JLxA
Listen thru https://ithorrorstories.eu/
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Mobile Money Ghana announce 9hours planned downtime from 12am to 9am on Sunday 15 March
#Connected #Downtime #Ghana #MTNGhana #MTNMoMo
https://gtechbooster.com/mobile-money-ghana-announce-9hours-planned-downtime-from-12am-to-9am-on-sunday-15-march/?fsp_sid=1046 -
We're on day 11 of March 2026 and @claudeai has already had "incidents" on 8 of those days. Some days had multiple separate incidents (happening at different times in the same day).
Also, their status page reports no "downtime" for today, and yet there are lots of people unable to login. At the very least, if there was an incident on a day then the chart should show yellow. Not green.
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Here we go again, dear GitHub 🙄
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AO3 as archive of our own, tried twice in some weeks, hmm ...page gets repaired (again on maintenance), still cool to write 'N read stories if it be up again
but nice how they manage new profiles on their side, waiting until you get in, sounds interested, at last how I think of it
#down #downtime #status #writer #story #excited #english #brainstorm #brainstorming #creative #soon #maintenance
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AO3 as archive of our own, tried twice in some weeks, hmm ...page gets repaired (again on maintenance), still cool to write 'N read stories if it be up again
but nice how they manage new profiles on their side, waiting until you get in, sounds interested, at last how I think of it
#down #downtime #status #writer #story #excited #english #brainstorm #brainstorming #creative #soon #maintenance
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AO3 as archive of our own, tried twice in some weeks, hmm ...page gets repaired (again on maintenance), still cool to write 'N read stories if it be up again
but nice how they manage new profiles on their side, waiting until you get in, sounds interested, at last how I think of it
#down #downtime #status #writer #story #excited #english #brainstorm #brainstorming #creative #soon #maintenance
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AO3 as archive of our own, tried twice in some weeks, hmm ...page gets repaired (again on maintenance), still cool to write 'N read stories if it be up again
but nice how they manage new profiles on their side, waiting until you get in, sounds interested, at last how I think of it
#down #downtime #status #writer #story #excited #english #brainstorm #brainstorming #creative #soon #maintenance
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AO3 as archive of our own, tried twice in some weeks, hmm ...page gets repaired (again on maintenance), still cool to write 'N read stories if it be up again
but nice how they manage new profiles on their side, waiting until you get in, sounds interested, at last how I think of it
#down #downtime #status #writer #story #excited #english #brainstorm #brainstorming #creative #soon #maintenance
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Downtime isn’t just costly—it’s a trust killer. 💸 In financial services, outages can cost millions, invite regulatory penalties, and damage customer confidence. Our latest blog dives into the true cost of downtime and why resilience, security, and compliance must be non-negotiable.
#FinancialServices #CyberSecurity #Compliance #Downtime #Resilience #DigitalTrust #RELIANOID
https://www.relianoid.com/blog/why-financial-services-institutions-must-protect-themselves-from-downtime/ -
One aspect to consider is that self-hosting, as well as non-mainstream options, do not offer the same level of service as one might expect. Simply, be redundant or ready to work around, just in case.
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Five science-based reasons to provide white space at events that incorporate biology, physics, physiology, social science & neuroscience
#meetings #breaks #downtime #socials #EventDesign #events #eventprofs
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Der Server ist nicht abgestürzt.
Er hat sich entschieden, nicht mehr Teil dieses Projekts zu sein. -
Der Server ist nicht abgestürzt.
Er hat sich entschieden, nicht mehr Teil dieses Projekts zu sein. -
Der Server ist nicht abgestürzt.
Er hat sich entschieden, nicht mehr Teil dieses Projekts zu sein. -
Der Server ist nicht abgestürzt.
Er hat sich entschieden, nicht mehr Teil dieses Projekts zu sein. -
Der Server ist nicht abgestürzt.
Er hat sich entschieden, nicht mehr Teil dieses Projekts zu sein. -
Die #downtime von #linuxnews lag im Jahr 2025 bei ca. 12 Minuten, gemessen an der Frontpage, was #tier3 entspricht.
Das erreichen wir mit einem 56€ Root Server, Pluginverseuchtem #wordpress was blöd skaliert und viel #kaffee.
Mir fehlt jegliches Verständnis dafür warum sowas teilweise Konzerne oder Verlagshäuser nicht hinbekommen, mit #cdn, Load Balancern, #highavaibality und was weiß ich nicht für einem Käse.
Es muss nicht immer teuer sein wenn die Architektur stimmt.
2026 Goal: 8 Minuten
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Yesterday we had an unplanned #downtime for about 2 hours because someone from hosting deployed a firmware update to the UPS battery. Manufacturer #Eaton claimed it wouldn’t interrupt power to the machines connected (you know the U in UPS is for "uninterruptable"?)—but it did so for a second.
All services back online after remote LUKS unlock of disk encryption.
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Yesterday we had an unplanned #downtime for about 2 hours because someone from hosting deployed a firmware update to the UPS battery. Manufacturer #Eaton claimed it wouldn’t interrupt power to the machines connected (you know the U in UPS is for "uninterruptable"?)—but it did so for a second.
All services back online after remote LUKS unlock of disk encryption.
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Yesterday we had an unplanned #downtime for about 2 hours because someone from hosting deployed a firmware update to the UPS battery. Manufacturer #Eaton claimed it wouldn’t interrupt power to the machines connected (you know the U in UPS is for "uninterruptable"?)—but it did so for a second.
All services back online after remote LUKS unlock of disk encryption.
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🎮 Oh no, the digital playground is closed! 🚫 Apparently, a gazillion page views mean #Steam has taken a nap – shocking revelation! 💡 Fear not, gamers, just hit #refresh every 45 seconds and pray to the #JavaScript gods. 🙏💻
https://steamstat.us/ #digitalplayground #downtime #gamingcommunity #HackerNews #ngated -
Downtime, No Answers: The Chronic Silence Of Banks And Telcos In Malaysia #banking #banks #downtime #editorial #opinion #outage #telco #telcos
https://www.lowyat.net/2025/376897/the-chronic-silence-of-banks-and-telcos-in-malaysia/
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Как я распилил 1,1 ТБ default-партиции и не уронил прод
Мы забыли вовремя создать партиции, и все новые данные полетели в events_default_partition . Default дорос до ~1.1 ТБ, а простое «ATTACH PARTITION» требовало часов сканирования и долгой блокировки. В статье — почему «быстрые» рецепты оказываются медленными, как я перенёс данные в нужные диапазоны, и как мы уложили критическую блокировку в 44 с . Default-партиция — это не озеро Байкал. Если туда всё сливать, экосистема потом мстит. 44 секунды блокировки: план операции
https://habr.com/ru/articles/977528/
#партиционирование_PostgreSQL #ATTACH_PARTITION #plpgsql #автоматизация_обслуживания_БД #explain_analyze #downtime #advisory_lock #CHECK_constraint #partitioning #database_migrations
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Как я распилил 1,1 ТБ default-партиции и не уронил прод
Мы забыли вовремя создать партиции, и все новые данные полетели в events_default_partition . Default дорос до ~1.1 ТБ, а простое «ATTACH PARTITION» требовало часов сканирования и долгой блокировки. В статье — почему «быстрые» рецепты оказываются медленными, как я перенёс данные в нужные диапазоны, и как мы уложили критическую блокировку в 44 с . Default-партиция — это не озеро Байкал. Если туда всё сливать, экосистема потом мстит. 44 секунды блокировки: план операции
https://habr.com/ru/articles/977528/
#партиционирование_PostgreSQL #ATTACH_PARTITION #plpgsql #автоматизация_обслуживания_БД #explain_analyze #downtime #advisory_lock #CHECK_constraint #partitioning #database_migrations
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Как я распилил 1,1 ТБ default-партиции и не уронил прод
Мы забыли вовремя создать партиции, и все новые данные полетели в events_default_partition . Default дорос до ~1.1 ТБ, а простое «ATTACH PARTITION» требовало часов сканирования и долгой блокировки. В статье — почему «быстрые» рецепты оказываются медленными, как я перенёс данные в нужные диапазоны, и как мы уложили критическую блокировку в 44 с . Default-партиция — это не озеро Байкал. Если туда всё сливать, экосистема потом мстит. 44 секунды блокировки: план операции
https://habr.com/ru/articles/977528/
#партиционирование_PostgreSQL #ATTACH_PARTITION #plpgsql #автоматизация_обслуживания_БД #explain_analyze #downtime #advisory_lock #CHECK_constraint #partitioning #database_migrations
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Как я распилил 1,1 ТБ default-партиции и не уронил прод
Мы забыли вовремя создать партиции, и все новые данные полетели в events_default_partition . Default дорос до ~1.1 ТБ, а простое «ATTACH PARTITION» требовало часов сканирования и долгой блокировки. В статье — почему «быстрые» рецепты оказываются медленными, как я перенёс данные в нужные диапазоны, и как мы уложили критическую блокировку в 44 с . Default-партиция — это не озеро Байкал. Если туда всё сливать, экосистема потом мстит. 44 секунды блокировки: план операции
https://habr.com/ru/articles/977528/
#партиционирование_PostgreSQL #ATTACH_PARTITION #plpgsql #автоматизация_обслуживания_БД #explain_analyze #downtime #advisory_lock #CHECK_constraint #partitioning #database_migrations
