is the site down for maintenance?
The site hasn't been working at all for several days - I verified it's not just me with a downforeveryoneorjustme.com search. Is the site coming back?? I really hope so. If not, please make some way for users to export their data once more before it's gone for good.
If it is coming back and this was a planned shutdown, please post that somewhere! Preferably in advance of the shutdown. An email to all users would be great.
Yes it's down. No it's not down for good.
If we ever shut down we'll make sure to have data exports available in some form I'm sure.
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Anonymous User commented
Re-posting info I got via email from the site's admins:
"So, what happened is that on Friday morning we had a power loss in the machine room that hosts the machines that run movielens. our hosting team is looking into why our main servers are offline -- but until the machines are accessible we can't get movielens back online.
So not maintenance, but also not forever -- once the machines come back online we bring movielens back on line with them. Absolute worst case, we have backups of all the data off-site. So long as there is still science to be done movielens is going to come back.
Sorry I don't have more information just yet."
HOORAY! Thanks team movielens.