Originally Posted by
weero
A scheduled few-hour maintenance is in no way comparable to an 8 months outage of *A upgrade awards, and a 22+ days lasting crippled sponsor upgrade functionality

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That is kind of my point, as mentioned in my earlier post on reliability. There is a distinct difference between legitimate issues and hysteria. The problem in this forum (not seen in others) is that both types of issues arise with equal prominence.
Also FWIW, I just now sponsored a CR1 for someone just to see if it would work, and it went through without issue. My friend is now the lucky beneficiary of my test

! The 22 day siege must be over

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