My memories are hazy at best. I was far from the most active participant leading up to it, and as everything went down, I was away in very rural Scotland, and had no clue how things had gone before I came back a week later. But I have an impression of it not being planned to happen on that date, as I seem to remember being (at least a little bit) surprised when I finally got online. But as I said, hazy, so I could be wrong about this.