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Dan,

Is there a Beta (as in pre-production testing) System or was this
outage on the production system?

There is no separate Beta system.

There is a group by that name, the name chosen when the entire site was considered to be in beta test. I'm not 100% sure it isn't still.

If the latter, why was the outage notice posted in a Beta Group and
not sent to this group (maybe even as a special notice)?

Because this group is not owned by Groups.io, it is owned by me. Nor are there even (to my knowledge) any Groups.io employees reading this group.

Also, as has been mentioned elsewhere, the roughly 850 members of this group likely represent only a small fraction of all the group owners and moderators; there being roughly 6800 listed Groups.io groups, plus an unknown number of unlisted ones.

I'm not defending having posted the notice in solely beta (that has an even smaller membership than this group), but that notice was also posted as a banner on Groups.io web pages for a period of time before the outage began. So at least those actively using the site would likely have seen that before the site went offline.

Those using the service by email might or might not have noticed the outage. Although we get used to near-instantaneous email delivery, email as an infrastructure does not carry any timeliness guarantees.

Shal
GMF Owner


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