The explanation for the server outage is 'maintenance.' The gibberish that follows is a string of un-funny non-sequiturs. YMMV.

Completely agree. The only explanation I can think of for that being posted is that the writer is sufficiently senior that no-one wants to lose their job by telling him it isn't funny, or worse, it just didn't occur to him to bounce it around the office beforehand for a humour benchmarking.

No. I think this possibly the more useless explanation ever. shrug

What's that?

But, seriously, it wasn't even funny - just a little incomprehensible. Certainly unlikely to make sense to the vast majority of their users.

I appreciate a short and concise explanation as I have heard enough 'stories' in my day job.

Wait a second, at one point it says the interns are unpaid, and then it says they'll withhold their paychecks? If SlideShare can't even be consistent with their story about whether or not their interns are paid how am I supposed to trust them with my most awesome bullet-point laden PowerPoint slides??

> Wait a second, at one point it says the interns are unpaid, and then it says they'll withhold their paychecks?

Why yes, haven't you ever heard people asking for their invitations to be refunded?

We hope the Apple tree farm will not infest the server room during this time nor an Android UFO landing. :) Great way to spin a planned server outage!

This is what my travel blogging site looked like during our server migration a couple weeks back:

http://www.blogabond.com/maintenance.html

I like this sort of informal notice a lot more than the corporate boilerplate you tend to see most of the time.

What's next? The Solar solstice has caused mass downtime; stay tuned. Eeek.

Penguins are nasty. They bite!