Just a thought

There is no reason in the year 2023 that any website should deliberately break their website because of "maintenance". If you ever see a "we're under maintenance" message on a website, it's because the website developers are either lazy or stupid. It's possible to avoid downtime and errors in 100% of cases if it's actually done right.

To be clear, Imgflip certainly has some errors from time to time, but we almost never deliberately break things. It's usually either 1) an accidental bug, 2) one of our service providers having downtime, or 3) extra high volume or some DDOSing the site.

Oooookay, I did NOT mean to get on your bad side.

oh lol, you're totally fine, my annoyance is with all the other crappy websites I have to deal with 😂

oh, I feel bad for you man XD

It depends on which site you're talking about... if you were making a big update for a website where anyone can code games and projects, it would be wise to shut the site down while you work so that no one accidentally plays with an unfinished feature, and/or corrupts a project of theirs

nope, those websites would be just as lazy or stupid for shutting their site down, there are tons of ways to develop new updates and features that do not affect the current production environment and allow you to incrementally roll it out when it's ready. I'm not sure if you know them or work there or something, but if you give me a specific example of when the site was shut down that you thought was reasonable, I am happy to explain why it was not and how it could have been avoided.

the only case I can think of where it might legitimately make sense to disable a website entirely during an upgrade, is when there is somehow life and death involved, although even those websites would be tiered into a multi-stage extremely slow and cautious roll out, so there wouldn't really be a need for a particular site to go down during the rollout that I can think of