northernchild

Finally

I kind of doubt they put much weight into the university you say you're going to attend unless you're already attending/have letters from there.

I was just stating a fact.

Current year is now set as 2017; it was 2016 while the 2017 results were not available.

Woohoo!

I think if that were the case the 2017 awards list should be back up.

... if we're lucky

Yeah, I think that's just further confirmation that they've just been working on the registration/account changes or whatever.

Would be in line with the government ‘s recent trend-bucking initiatives.

Seems pretty unlikely at this point, especially since there's an alternative explanation for the maintenance announcement with the upcoming changes.

It would've been really surprising had they responded, "Yep, looks like the results will be out on ______".

Agreed, and the strongest evidence would be an announcement directly on the GRFP home page.

If it is related, we would need a maintenance announcement for tonight to tomorrow morning. Either no maintenance announcement and results tomorrow morning or results on Saturday morning would go against the strong prior of Tuesday/Friday and maintenance night before to morning of.

I agree: it's more likely that both announcements were made at the same time than that people missed the initial one and only posted when both were up.

So assuming the order in that post was the same as the order on NSF alerts, the Friday to Saturday alert was posted prior to the Thursday to Friday. Perhaps there's still a chance!