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We're back up and running, with a slightly longer than expected downtime. As part of this maintenance cycle, we've installed new varnish configuration files which *should* hopefully fix the long standing issues with logging in, as well as articles not showing up on the main page.
Furthermore, we've dumped the static page generation used by slash in favor of simply varnishing everything. Now anonymous users are on a 5 minute page cache (so new comments and such will take a bit of time to show up, consistent with the other site), which logged in users can bypass the cache and get live access to articles. A couple of things such as comment count are still dependent on slashd's freshen.pl task, so those don't update in real time (yet).
In other news, we've (finally) got a proper development server up at http://dev.soylentnews.org/, running a copy of the production database where we can stage changes and other various things before deploying here. If you want to see what we're up to before we push it live, check it out. As usual, if we make any large scale changes, we'll announce it BEFORE pushing it here.
Furthermore, we've dumped the static page generation used by slash in favor of simply varnishing everything. Now anonymous users are on a 5 minute page cache (so new comments and such will take a bit of time to show up, consistent with the other site), which logged in users can bypass the cache and get live access to articles. A couple of things such as comment count are still dependent on slashd's freshen.pl task, so those don't update in real time (yet).
In other news, we've (finally) got a proper development server up at http://dev.soylentnews.org/, running a copy of the production database where we can stage changes and other various things before deploying here. If you want to see what we're up to before we push it live, check it out. As usual, if we make any large scale changes, we'll announce it BEFORE pushing it here.
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(Score: 2) by Open4D on Sunday March 23 2014, @04:23PM
Yes, Twitter would be good for that kind of thing.
In this case, the main Twitter feed did a pretty good job, because this was scheduled downtime that had been published as a story on the front page:3 5738624 [twitter.com]
https://twitter.com/SoylentNews/status/4470451308
In one sense, having a Twitter account is like having an RSS feed hosted independently. And for people who already follow other things on Twitter, and don't follow anything else on RSS, it must be pretty convenient that Soylent has this main Twitter feed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @05:18PM
Hey, thank you! That feed did NOT come up in my searches, nor did NCommander mention it in his reply above.
Glad I checked back in here. :)