RIP Linkshells

[Shinkuno]

Cause they were somehow supposed to know that they'd accidentally break Linkshells.

They ended maintenance 1 hour earlier, i expected them to you know actually test basic functionality

[NanaWiloh]

Man I was chill about this from page 1 but even then it's not hard to see why people would panic about this when they log in and every linkshell is purged with no word from square for hours after the fact. It's a real easy mode lukewarm take to come in after things are announced and on their way to a resolution to pretend like you knew things would turn out fine. Especially rich coming from someone who wasn't even on the affected DC.

Even if it happend on my dc my take would be the same. They said servers were being upgraded and data transfered its not issue free process not my fault believe their own lies.

[Vahlnir]

I don't know how they managed this. They had a 24 hour maintenance for what seemed like very little changes, and instead of everything going super smoothly, this happened instead?

I'm seriously trying to be fair. I know there's some people that just want to rip on the game just to rip on it but how do you even defend this?

I will admit that I'm more impressed by this mishap than anything else. Things are always going to go wrong in some way, but they did have a full day, so...I guess for SE, that doesn't mean fewer potential problems, it just means they have a full day to mess it up in ways maybe even they didn't know where possible.

[TaleraRistain]

I don't know how they managed this. They had a 24 hour maintenance for what seemed like very little changes, and instead of everything going super smoothly, this happened instead?

I'm seriously trying to be fair. I know there's some people that just want to rip on the game just to rip on it but how do you even defend this?

Hardware replacement is not a small change. That they only had linkshells break on one DC is a pretty successful implementation for something like this.

Major server switch over and if the only bug we get is Crystal DC linkshells not working I'd say that's pretty amazing. I suspect there will be other bugs and hotfixes incoming.

This. I'm fine if people don't have infrastructure of software engineering experience but when we who do have that experience say "It's not that simple" then we shouldn't be called white knights for it. It's not that simple, people.

[Striker44]

Is it just me or do long maints feel significantly jankier than short ones.

Makes sense. Shorter maintenance is for smaller, quicker changes that are less likely to have unexpected "side effects." Longer maintenance isn't just more time to do the same thing...it means the maintenance itself that is happening is significantly more involved. The more complicated it is, the more likely something goes wrong and needs an extra fix.

I don't know how they managed this. They had a 24 hour maintenance for what seemed like very little changes, and instead of everything going super smoothly, this happened instead?

I'm seriously trying to be fair. I know there's some people that just want to rip on the game just to rip on it but how do you even defend this?

Doing a massive hardware transfer is the polar opposite of "very little change." It's a huge undertaking from an IT perspective, and extremely easy for anyone in the field to "defend" it.

[Vahlnir]

Hardware replacement is not a small change. That they only had linkshells break on one DC is a pretty successful implementation for something like this.



This. I'm fine if people don't have infrastructure of software engineering experience but when we who do have that experience say "It's not that simple" then we shouldn't be called white knights for it. It's not that simple, people.

Oh yeah, it was no doubt a lot of work. I'm not doubting the effort involved at all. I just find it amusing that they had a full day to do it and they still broke something.

[GTK0HLK]

I'm surprised some people went alil "sparky" with their interpretation of others intellect out of bookshelves. [Eh, ah well, Reddit has a way of screenshotting us now to mock us I saw 20 mins ago]

And this wasn't only just Hardware Replacement and all that entails.
But other things that tie into it, as other Users have stated before. <and I tried to hint before hand without being blunt>

Hence why I'd be curious to know the broadworkings which, like I hinted before, someone that would know, was unlikely to be here at this exact time.

Either way, did things actually get back to normal now.
As some of us have returned from their slumber?

[Vahlnir]

[Eh, ah well, Reddit has a way of screenshotting us now to mock us I saw 20 mins ago]

Reddit is far worse all around than we are, so their opinions don't hold a lot of weight.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Oh yeah, it was no doubt a lot of work. I'm not doubting the effort involved at all. I just find it amusing that they had a full day to do it and they still broke something.

More time just means more things that can break. You'd be surprised how often bugs come up in production data centers.

[TaleraRistain]

Oh yeah, it was no doubt a lot of work. I'm not doubting the effort involved at all. I just find it amusing that they had a full day to do it and they still broke something.

They had a full day to do the implementation but software and the hardware it works with sometimes does unexpected things, and sometimes it's not even something you can catch in testing since it doesn't manifest until all the pieces are chugging along together in a production environment. All said, this is a pretty minor bug for the changes that had to be made. Though I imagine there are probably some more that will come up.