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posted by NCommander on Saturday August 30 2014, @11:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the up-down-503-left-right dept.
Quick note, due to emergency maintenance done today to workaround a problem with gluster, the main page was not properly updating for anonymous users as well as other site functionality being flakely. This caused some users to see stale comments, and/or article pages, as well as other site bugs. Right now, we've got a bunch of duct tape holding everything together, with larger work needing to be done over this weekend to get us back to "status quo".

I apologize for any disruption in your SN service, and will keep folks apprised of the situation.
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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @12:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @12:05AM (#87689)

    Crash hard and stay down, why don't you, babe.

    • (Score: 2) by carguy on Sunday August 31 2014, @12:33AM

      by carguy (568) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 31 2014, @12:33AM (#87697)

      Gee, if you can't say anything useful, why are you here at all?

      When I tried to log in ~12 hours ago I got some error that included a footnote about Varnish. After a few of these, everything worked normally.

      Thanks for all the hard work!

      • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @12:47AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @12:47AM (#87699)

        Eat my asshole, faggot.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @03:33AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @03:33AM (#87738)

      Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy.

      Fuck you.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Bill Evans on Sunday August 31 2014, @01:02AM

    by Bill Evans (1094) on Sunday August 31 2014, @01:02AM (#87705) Homepage

    As Christine Byl (an excellent writer; her first book is Dirt Work) would say, duct tape will get you through times without money better than money will get you through times without duct tape.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @01:05AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @01:05AM (#87706)

      If duct tape fails, a hammer works wonders.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @01:08AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @01:08AM (#87708)

      Use the money to buy duct tape, fool.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Sunday August 31 2014, @02:19AM

        by LoRdTAW (3755) on Sunday August 31 2014, @02:19AM (#87726) Journal

        It certainly can help earn you even more money. Just think of how it can help in these lucrative scenarios: You can tape people to chairs naked and rummage through their kitchen drawers mumbling about needing a sharper knife. You can be sure to get their debit card pin numbers, bank account info, etc. Tape peoples hands to their steering wheel making them drive you anywhere, free taxi service without that annoying meter! Cover security cameras in dimly lit parking garages. Tape two magazines together to double your fun. Prevent people from banging on the trunk alerting others of your scheme. Holding explosive charges in place. And the list goes on. Overall, it's a great investment.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @02:34AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @02:34AM (#87730)
  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @06:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @06:16AM (#87764)

    It's got a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together.

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 31 2014, @09:09AM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday August 31 2014, @09:09AM (#87788) Journal

      But Soylent has a different variety of duct tape, using hope instead of glue, as evidenced by the summary (emphasis by me): "we've got a bunch of duct tape hoping everything together".

      So let's hope that the duct tape has enough hope to keep the site working. ;-)

      --
      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @04:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @04:03PM (#87857)

    the main page was not properly updating for anonymous users as well as other site functionality being flakely.

    Is the server using HP power cord? :)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @05:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 31 2014, @05:34PM (#87871)

      Is the server using HP power cord? :)

      I see what you did there!