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Summary:
It wasn't just you; SoylentNews.org was down today (Sunday, 2021-01-03) for a few hours in the mid morning to early afternoon UTC. It seems to be back up and running, but there are some minor artifacts.
Background:
First sign was some CSS and Slashbox issues appearing on Saturday night. I was editing a story and when I tried to preview it, saw that the SlashBoxes that normally appeared on the LHS (Left-Hand Side) of the page were missing. A page refresh or two later, and things looked okay, again. A bit later I went to view a story and saw the same symptoms. This time a hard reload that ignored and cache on my system (Ctrl+F5) did the trick.
I popped onto IRC (Internet Relay Chat), reported these symptoms, and asking if anyone else was seeing the same thing. Received a couple confirmations.
Oh. Joy. And TMB (The Mighty Buzzard) still seemed to be away on vacation.
Oh well. Skipped on over to boron and ran a script to bounce the apache servers on fluorine and hydrogen. Popped back onto IRC, reported what I did, and asked if things were better. Got some affirmations. Yay!
Just in case, I hung around for another half hour or so to confirm the site was staying up and running okay. Looking good! After thanking everyone for their help, I wished everybody a good night and then headed to bed.
Sunday:
Shortly after I woke and attempted to visit the site, I was greeted by a message explaining the site was down due to DB issues. When I got back onto IRC, found that TMB was already hands-on. The site had crashed early in the morning. With the site already down, and it being Sunday morning, he decided to take advantage of the opportunity to make some backups and then do some maintenance work.
Status:
Site is back up, system loads seem back-to-normal, and things seem to be pretty much as they should be. Except... the Older Stuff slashbox that appears on the RHS (Right-Hand Side) of the main page seemed to be missing some entries. The newest entry as I write this is YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Used To Upload 'Pirate' Movies and File DMCA Notice.
I suspect the missing entries will eventually start to stream in and repopulate the list.
tl;dr:
The DB crashed and took the site with it. TMB was soon on the scene and fixed the DB and did some other work. We're back up and running.
Thanks TMB!
(Score: 4, Touché) by janrinok on Monday January 04 2021, @01:17PM (5 children)
I don't think that TMB is a librarian.... but perhaps you mistyped that because your fingers cannot keep up with the crap you are trying to write.
We do have other technical staff - but you may have noticed that the last 12 months or so have not exactly been normal. Everybody has real lives (apart from yourself, obviously) and they are not able to help at the moment. From time to time we do ask for volunteers for all posts but it seems many are like you - all mouth but unable to provide any real practical support.
If you dislike this site so much - why are you still here? Don't you know how to access a different URL?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 04 2021, @02:05PM (3 children)
I do have a couple thousand hardcopy books. And maybe twice as many comic books from many longs ago. And eventually there's going to be a pretty awesome library in the church house.
I think he read a lot of Pratchett and was implying that I'm an orangutan though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 04 2021, @03:44PM (1 child)
Any theme to your library? Mine (partly inherited) is about the same size as yours, but nearly all the books and magazines are on transportation--cars, car racing and some aircraft.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 06 2021, @06:43AM
Dark hardwood, comfortable leather seating, and bronze fixtures. The only thing going to be painted is the vaulted ceiling. It's going to be white so we can bounce and scatter the big lights off of it when lamps and wall sconces won't do. No chandeliers necessary, which will be nice since the ceiling peak is thirty feet above the floor and any wiring for them would have to be surface mounted.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday January 05 2021, @02:42AM
A man after my own library... some year I'll build shelves and get 'em back outta the boxes... main function of a house is a place to keep the durn books.
When you get confused with an orangutan, might be time to strop your razor. ;)
[Thanks for all you do here, Buzzy.]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Funny) by RS3 on Monday January 04 2021, @03:55PM
No no, not "librarian", but "liberarian": one who liberates. You're welcome. :-}