Brief outage planned for Wed, May 3, 2017 at 0:00 UTC, 8pm US/Eastern (like a fire drill for computers): Planned service degradation: All Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange sites read-only for 20 minutes on Wed, May 3, 2017 shortly after midnight UTC (8PM US/Eastern). If you blink, you’ll miss it. Visit the link for the full story.