Following downtime due to a major database upgrade on the backend, the decentralized social media platform Mastodon has completed the maintenance and is now back online.

San Francisco, July 13 (IANS) Following downtime due to a major database upgrade on the backend, the decentralized social media platform Mastodon has completed the maintenance and is now back online.

According to the company’s status page, the platform underwent maintenance on Wednesday, which lasted for about an hour.

It affected the website and application programming interface (API), as well as the background queues.

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“We will be performing a major database upgrade on the backend. We’ve created a process to minimize downtime, however, there will still be some downtime during the process (est. 15-20 minutes),” the company had said.

In an update, it said, “Maintenance has been completed successfully.”

Meanwhile, last week, the server of the decentralized social media platform was down for about 23 hours and 59 minutes.

According to the company, the outage was caused due to domain suspension.

As per the online outage monitor website Downdetector, about 39 percent of people had reported problems with the server connection, 30 percent while using the website, and 30 percent while using the app.

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