We’ll give the upgrade new try tomorrow. I’ve had some good input from admins of other instances, which are also gonna help troubleshoot during/after the upgrade.
Also there are newer RC versions with fixed issues.
Be aware that might we need to rollback again, posts posted between the upgrade and the rollback will be lost.
We see a huge rise in new user signups (duh… it’s July 1st) which also stresses the server. Let’s hope the improvements in 0.18.1 will also help with that.
For those that were about to Google it… 20:00 CET is 12pm PDT and 3pm EDT
18:00 UTC would be a better time to report for an international server. (on the other hand, people who can fund us can DDG the timezones as well ;) )
I’m pretty sure OP means CEST, since we’re in summer. So that means you need to subtract one more hour.