Nearly had a heart attack

[JonSimmonds]

Logged into adsense and saw a red box with an explanation mark in it, thought I was in trouble! turns out its a notification to warn us of engineering work taking place over the weekend.

Good idea, but could the background be changed to yellow? Don't know about other people but I associate red backgrounds with "bad stuff"

[Karma]

Pink for me

[LifeinAsia]

Well, it DID get your attention. :)

[Bddmed]

Notifications in your account. Where it should be. I think it's a big leap forward. And one of the things we've been asking for (you can drop my optimization reports however (the last one was on November 2007 and I don't count them as 'recent' anymore :))).

[sunhapol]

I saw that too

[AndyA]

I agree - I like the notification box, very nice and very helpful when you log in. You sure can't miss it, thanks Google.

[leadegroot]

Yep, extremely helpful of them - well done ASA :)

[netmeg]

And according to @adsense on twitter, tomorrow's maintenance has been cancelled anyway.

[johnnie]

And according to @adsense on twitter, tomorrow's maintenance has been cancelled anyway.

Guess they used the time needed to solve today's problems to add some maintenance work as well.

[Samx]

Well i'm fairly sure the panic you experienced for a millisecond is not Google's highest priority

[CWebguy]

yeah, I saw it too and thought the same thing, haha

[AdSenseAdvisor]

Yep, extremely helpful of them - well done ASA

You're welcome.

But just so you know, this had absolutely nothing to do with me. This and many other cool features are thanks to a brave team of engineers working on the AdSense interface you know and love.

And JonSimmonds, I've passed along your feedback to that team. :)

ASA