YouTube Surprise Maintenance mode

Back in the glory days of YouTube, they would tell you a few hours in advance that they were going into maintenance mode. This would allow content creators such as myself, the opportunity to postpone uploading a video. When in maintenance mode ratings and comments are disabled, and durring the first 48 hours that is important.

Now I am finding it all to common to upload a video only to find that shortly thereafter, ratings and comments are disabled due to a surprise maintenance session by YouTube.