Prediction: Your Tumblr will be down for a while next weekend.
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Why do I say that? Because microblogging and social media platform Tumblr just took the unusual step of warning all users ahead of time that the entire site will be down for maintenance on Saturday, October 6 starting at 4 a.m. ET.
Any Tumblr-based site will be inaccessible beginning at that point, and service will return sporadically over the next several hours.
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According to a message posted by Tumblr staff, the maintenance will be "last major step in upgrading [Tumblr's] infrastructure."
Here's the full announcement:
See the announcement for yourself right here. Are you frustrated by the upgrade, or do you welcome the site's efforts to improve?
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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