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    • Thenomain
      Thenomain @Arkandel last edited by

      @arkandel said in Transfer of MSB tonight: 7:30 EST:

      @thenomain You don't see an eyeball on the usernames' right side in every post?

      Oh is that what that’s for? Moderately bad interface design, but yeah, I see it. Huh.

      “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
      ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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      • Arkandel
        Arkandel Admin @Thenomain last edited by

        @thenomain Weird though, that's the same plugin we were using before. I had never used it myself, mind you, but I'd have expected the interface to be the same... maybe it's a newer version thing.

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        • surreality
          surreality last edited by

          Thank you, @Arkandel. I'm sure there's a lot of us who appreciate the return of that function.

          Oh fucking well.

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          • Thenomain
            Thenomain @Arkandel last edited by

            @arkandel said in Transfer of MSB tonight: 7:30 EST:

            @thenomain Weird though, that's the same plugin we were using before. I had never used it myself, mind you, but I'd have expected the interface to be the same... maybe it's a newer version thing.

            Well I’ve also never used it. I’ve tried using ignore on people in the past, but it turns out that I can’t follow the conversation when I can’t see what people are responding to. Funny that. To me it’s far easier to see what people are seeing and roll my eyes; I am kept in the know and my eyes get some valuable exercise.

            “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
            ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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            • Arkandel
              Arkandel Admin @surreality last edited by

              @surreality said in Transfer of MSB tonight: 7:30 EST:

              Thank you, @Arkandel. I'm sure there's a lot of us who appreciate the return of that function.

              Sorry about not transfering the ignore lists over. nodebb breaks if you look at it funny, so I didn't want to simply copy over the old directory to the new host.

              By the way, automated backups seem to work properly. I have on- and off-site daily data and image (avatars, etc) .bz2 archives going back 21 days, which should be enough for now. I might need to reinstall the forum if something catastrophic happens to the Linode but at least we aren't likely to have a WORA-level loss again.

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              • Thenomain
                Thenomain @Arkandel last edited by

                @arkandel said in Transfer of MSB tonight: 7:30 EST:

                By the way, automated backups seem to work properly. I have on- and off-site daily data and image (avatars, etc) .bz2 archives going back 21 days, which should be enough for now. I might need to reinstall the forum if something catastrophic happens to the Linode but at least we aren't likely to have a WORA-level loss again.

                I want to note that I have both the last Wora backup and Swofa flat-files floating around on my hard drive. It's not trivial to pull data from it, but if anyone needs and my giv-a-dam is not too low, I can look to find the information.

                “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
                ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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                • Arkandel
                  Arkandel Admin @Thenomain last edited by

                  @thenomain Migrating from an older dumpfile might be challenging by now. I had issues using the current redis flat file over the weekend when nodebb was running its upgrade scripts for it, and that was just over a relatively small versions gap. Note however that this could have been caused by memory restraints (this is running on a 2GB host) while having to load process it at the same time.

                  WORA was using SMF if I remember correctly? I'd be curious to see if the current version of the platform would load the data from it at this point.

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                  • Arkandel
                    Arkandel Admin @Arkandel last edited by

                    I am told new user e-mail validation isn't working as expected. I'll need to look at it tonight - in the mean time I'll validate those users manually. It sounds like a sendmail issue.

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                    • Arkandel
                      Arkandel Admin @Arkandel last edited by

                      Forum e-mails ought to be playing ball with sendmail now. If there are any issues validating new accounts or receiving digests please let me know and I'll look into it.

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                      • Autumn
                        Autumn @Arkandel last edited by

                        @arkandel said in Transfer of MSB tonight: 7:30 EST:

                        sendmail

                        Well, geez, no wonder it wasn't working! The Clinton Administration called, they want their MTA of choice back.

                        ( 🙂 )

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                        • Arkandel
                          Arkandel Admin @Autumn last edited by

                          @autumn YOU TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT NOW sendmail IS THE BEST

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                          • Autumn
                            Autumn @Arkandel last edited by

                            @arkandel Sure, sure. Why, when you get sendmail set up and running properly* on a 386 running Slackware -- that's as good as it gets! Crack open a Zima and toast a job well done.

                            [*]: to the extent that sendmail ever runs properly, that is.

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                            • RnMissionRun
                              RnMissionRun last edited by

                              Postfix ftw 🙂

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                              • Tempest
                                Tempest Banned last edited by

                                Is the forum being super wonky in terms of maintaining connection, or is it just me?

                                I also had a notification for a chat message pop up, but no actual new messages.

                                IDK.

                                If you just sent me something, I didn't see it.

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                                • krmbm
                                  krmbm Banned last edited by

                                  @tempest said in Transfer of MSB tonight: 7:30 EST:

                                  Is the forum being super wonky in terms of maintaining connection, or is it just me?

                                  It's not just you.

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                                  • Arkandel
                                    Arkandel Admin @krmbm last edited by

                                    @krmbm Something is wonky. I am looking into it.

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                                    • Arkandel
                                      Arkandel Admin @Arkandel last edited by

                                      I think this might be under control now. I'll continue to monitor it, but the symptom seems to have been a rogue nodebb process was fired up which led to EADDRINUSE errors as the service kept dying then firing itself up again.

                                      I still need to look into what caused this mess. Meh, redis.

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                                      • Alzie
                                        Alzie @Arkandel last edited by

                                        @arkandel Doesn't really seem to be under control bruh.

                                        Alzie's Too Long Playlist

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                                        • Arkandel
                                          Arkandel Admin @Alzie last edited by Arkandel

                                          @alzie Were there issues today? I see nothing in the logs (whereas yesterday things had gotten spammy).

                                          By the way if anyone here is versed in redis and feels like lending a hand please drop me a line.

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                                          • Alzie
                                            Alzie @Arkandel last edited by

                                            @arkandel occasionally, I get internal errors when trying to go to unread and when trying to change pages while also writing a reply. They're very specific situations, so that's a good and bad thing for you. I assume internal error means a failure on some Ajax request somewhere and is probably not actually a server error or I'd not even get the error toast.

                                            Alzie's Too Long Playlist

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