[onethumb]

Two days? Scheduled maintenance began at 5:45pm PT May 22nd, and it's currently 12:10pm PT May 23rd. We're hours behind (this stuff is tough), but it hasn't even been one day, let alone two.

[privong]

The linked page says flickr is down for planned maintenance. There's not really anything informative/educational on the linked page. Not obviously anything that "gratifies ones intellectual curiosity" as suggested in the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

[jonas21]

It’s been less than a day (about 19 hours). That’s longer than the 12 hour scheduled maintenance window, but not that much longer.

[ysw0]

That's a brutally long time. My respect goes out to the Flickr engineers working 24/7 to bring it back up.

[harshvladha]

Scheduled maintenance for more than 12 hour? Sounds like something is way too wrong!

I am curious to understand what can take so much long time? and wouldn't there be a better strategy (i.e., without downtime) for maintenance?

[harshvladha → harshvladha]

https://blog.flickr.net/en/2019/05/08/planned-maintenance-an...

[yhoneycomb]

I'm more surprised that Flickr is still running. Is there a reason to still be using Flickr? I know they allow higher-quality image uploads. Is that what keeps people in the community?