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posted by martyb on Friday May 21 2021, @12:25AM   Printer-friendly

As many of you noticed, we had a site crash today. From around 1300 until 2200 UTC (2021-05-20).

A HUGE thank you goes to mechanicjay who spent the whole time trying to get our ndb (cluster) working again. It's an uncommon configuration, which made recovery especially challenging... there's just not a lot of documentation about it on the web.

I reached out and got hold of The Mighty Buzzard on the phone. Then put him in touch with mechanicjay who got us back up and running using backups.

Unfortunately, we had to go way back until April 14 to get a working backup. (I don't know all the details, but it appears something went sideways on neon).

We're all wiped out right now. When we have rested and had a chance to discuss things, we'll post an update.

In the meantime, please join me in thanking mechanicjay and TMB for all they did to get us up and running again!

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by istartedi on Friday May 21 2021, @04:12PM (2 children)

    by istartedi (123) on Friday May 21 2021, @04:12PM (#1137579) Journal

    How are you defining "great"? Are you defining it as having a larger user base? If so, that comes with a lot of problems that would, IMHO, not make a Slash site great.

    These sites have limited appeal *and that's good*.

    Are you defining great in terms of the quality of the posts?

    I think we're on a spectrum there. There are other tech sites from which I learn more, but there's also a lot of very popular social media that's garbage.

    We're somewhere in the middle. There's nothing wrong with that. The Internet has plenty of room for Lambda The Ultimate (which is coincidentally also down at the moment), Soylent, and reddit. They serve different communities.

    As for hate speech, you can't call Soylent a failure there. Hate speech always comes along for the ride, and as long as it's not the generally endorsed view of the community it doesn't harm us. If you think that's the situation we're in, you haven't really looked at too many other sites.

    Is there some group-think here? Sure, but it's nothing like reddit or a lot of other places. If it were, I wouldn't be here.

    It's almost like you're looking at a completely different site. Cautionary tale??? I just don't see that.

    We're small, people speak their mind here, and not everything is agreeable to you. That's not failure.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 21 2021, @04:20PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 21 2021, @04:20PM (#1137580)

    "Hate speech" is a bullshit term with no meaning, or rather, it means whatever the person who uses it wants to mean, which is simply: "Shut up!"

    Our language is constantly being degraded by invented words with no meaning and also removing meaning from old words.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by PiMuNu on Friday May 21 2021, @04:24PM

      by PiMuNu (3823) on Friday May 21 2021, @04:24PM (#1137581)

      Get thee to a nunnery