About letter avatars not always working - I’m looking into it.
EDIT:
based discourse upgrade thanks arch
Letter avatars master race.
As nice as the letters are, I had to ditch mine.
You damn traitor.
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YouTube embeds are broken.
Fair warning: Unknown-length Downtime starting in probably less than 10 minutes
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if i knew how, i would
there are more pressing things, like the fact that confirmation emails are broken (again)
CC @Arch?
(since we’re talking about broken stuff, pinned topics become unpinned every time I open them, it fills me with sadness.)
The “free” e-mail service that handles our e-mails, Mandrill (recommended by the discourse dev team), has been bought by another company and turned into a paid feature. I’ll have to set up a new e-mail service for FEU to use. In the mean time, I believe that we can manually authorize any new accounts in the ACP.
2016-05-27
Apologies for the downtime. In case you can’t tell, we’ve warped back in time about 10 days (to May 17th) due to a shitty mistake on my part and losing the majority of the server database. Bear with us while we fix all the damage.
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2016-08-23
Well… You may or may not have noticed that the site has at least a few issues since we time travelled. Spoilers are tiny, search doesn’t auto-update, and I don’t know why.
BEFORE I PROMISE ANYTHING (as I’m currently a poor uni student who can’t get his dumb linux machine onto the network), I want some data. Discourse Meta has lead me to believe that the current spoilers plugin is the root cause of all our issues. However, I currently do not believe we have a better alternative, besides the “details” HTML tag. I’m not opposed to swapping the spoiler tag to use that instead, but that would take some doing and time. Additionally, these spoilers wouldn’t work for people on certain browsers (see this link to see if you’re compatible).
I’m always looking to do the best I can for this community. Let me know if you think you have an idea (or if the details tag won’t work for you), and I’ll look into a workaround. Thanks!
2019-10-30
I’m amazed that we’ve gone this long without needing to go down for maintenance.
Emails are broken. I’m currently working on it.
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2020-05-30
Another year, another backend problem. I’m putting the site into readonly mode while we migrate to a new server, because this one is reaching its limits.
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2020-05-31 (again)
Well, we lost about an hour of posts because I messed up. I THINK we’re fixed again.
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2022-09-24
Whew, it’s been a while. I completely forgot to add the last update to this thread, but I’ll try to remember that this thread exists in the future so we can have a nice one-stop shop for all this stuff.
As for the actual update:
Many of you may have noticed some new pop-up warnings when you try to bump a thread that’s too old.
I think I’ve managed to stamp out all the bugs where really old threads were getting this warning spuriously, but please let me know if you continue to encounter issues.
EDIT:
If you’re still running into this, try hard-refreshing the page.
2022-12-15 Emergency Maintenance
We had some minor unplanned downtime today when I accidentally kicked off a full-site discourse upgrade without completing a required database upgrade. I think we should be in the clear now.
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Wow, I can’t believe we’ve gone over a year without any kind of major downtime. Shoutouts to Discourse support for making the upgrading process more and more seamless as time goes on.
Some of you may have noticed issues when replying to old threads. This is due to a bug in the plugin we use to display the necropost warning (the “this thread hasn’t been posted in for a year, are you sure?” warning); it should be fixed now. Thanks for understanding.
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