I was familiar with that post,
even user @Bonez0r has shared that discussion two days earlier, but that's not what I am talking about.
"you will see it happen in early December" is not what I was expecting as a time-line for the maintenance.

For reference this is how a service interruption announcement looks like(form Bitfinex):

Kraken works much better in the last 4-5hours , status page and some reddit threads confirms it but nothing official !!!

https://status.kraken.com/
https://np.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/7it1dy/it_seems_that_kraken_updated_their_engine_just/


But how hard is it to do a simple announcement...some people were freaking out during the maintenance, nothing was announced on twitter, on reddit, here or on their website...
https://np.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/7is3hs/404_page_not_found_with_kraken/

Since we have no official position we may soon find out that no upgrade was made but a server crashed as CryptoTeng said and took them 3 hors to reboot it. time will tell.

I have spent the last hour (8-9AM GMT) trying to close a short position which was on profit and just closed it now on LOSS...thx...

@crypt0dude I'm very familiar with scaling challenges and Kraken does not have a "http requests" problem but a strategy/management one. You cannot handle peoples money this bad for so long. There is no transparency with what is going on, no communication, no time-frame, nothing etc. "Our dev are working hard on fixing" is not an answer. You cannot have your dev team work on your site on "black-friday" to optimize/scale it, you have to prepare for that long before.

Looking at trading volume kraken has more than $3mil monthly revenue, renting 100x high performance physical(baremetal) servers not that virtual machine rubbish, costs no more than $40k(which is obviously overkill). So why are we getting so many cloudflare errors? Api-enpoint failures? Is it because key systems where designed to scale just vertically or because they didn't bother to automate the horizontal scaling process and now is failing!?


I have registered specially to post this because recent comments said that things might have gotten back to normal which is just not true.

I hope Kraken get's back on track soon, but in the mean time somebody should tell us what is going on!!