Subject: Are we back?
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Posted on: 2015-08-18 11:54:00 UTC
Looks like we're back.
Before anyone asks - no real idea what just happened, except that the entire disc.yourwebapps namespace vanished for a few hours. Assuming it doesn't happen again, I figure we just chalk it up to 'sometimes computers break' and move on.
hS
I'd just installed AdBlock, you see, and then I came here and it immediately crashed when I tried to look at a message. I'm quite glad that's not the problem (because ads suck).
... I know some of us oldbies sometimes go on about how the PPC feels like less of a community nowadays, how there's none of the off-Board interaction we used to get, etc etc.
But when I came down this morning and saw the Board was missing, I knew - just /knew/ - that I'd have emails in my inbox about it. And I did. Over the course of the day, four different people sent me messages about it, and some of those mentioned other people in on the loops.
So thank you, everyone. It's good to know we've still got it when it counts. ^_^
hS, feeling good
So we don't have to panic anymore?
Maybe. Unless a few hours of the site being down doesn't qualify as a 'Great Board Crash'... Probably it'll have to have lasted all day or something, I dunno.
Anyway, I got a "Connection Refused" message when I tried to respond. So I'm guessing the server must've malfunctioned in some way, perhaps a security issue.
I don't think it was even a full day of absence.
(I only got an internal server error. *shrug*)
Perhaps we ought to come up with a contingency plan in case this happens again?
Unfortunately, it's the Other Board. ^_^
Did the Wiki forum not work out? I only had time to set it up before coming to work, so I haven't seen how things went. But if it worked moderately well, it's a suitable short-term hideout.
hS
The wiki's forum actually appears to be disabled in Wiki Features. Did you or somebody else disable it again? Or, how did you go about setting it up?
~Neshomeh
It was working this morning...
Actually, all I did was find the link to it; it was already there when I got to it, with five old threads sitting in it. The link I then posted to the top of the Wiki's front page this morning.
If someone's disabled it, it weren't me.
hS
I suspect there are old forums and new forums. What we've got right now is an old forum, the threads of which pretty much behaves like any other wiki article; what could be enabled in Wiki Features is a new forum, which would behave like... a forum. Do we want to give it a try and see what happens, just in case we need it?
~Neshomeh
Though it's obviously not my preferred refuge, since I can't actually get to it from here...
hS
Friends, I give you the Wechi Mountain Refuge, a safe place to go should both Borrd and Ozerborrd for some reason need to be evacuated.
(There are also a bunch of fora for wiki conversation, if you want to do any of that. The "topics" thing could be cool, I guess.)
~Neshomeh
Hopefully we won't need it.
~Neshomeh
Only saw Voyd and Nesh's posts on there before I went to bed, so I haven't yet seen how that turned out.
*rolls out of bed to look*
It's still occasionally cutting out over here.
I'd suggest hanging on before we announce it fully over.