Comments on: Server updated

Server updated

mathowie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:33:54 -0800

Server upgrade is complete, but there were certainly bumps along the way. If you spot any weirdness after the fact, drop it here.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:36:29 -0800

How about in the mirror?

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:37:09 -0800

YAAAAAAY!

By: carsonb

carsonb — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:40:21 -0800

I held my breath the entire time.

By: otolith

otolith — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:42:06 -0800

Very nice, very nice. I especially like the addition of the chandelier in the foyer.

By: caddis

caddis — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:45:01 -0800

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:46:16 -0800

Wow. Did everyone feel that. I'm noticing that the hate level has been reduced. Is that a feature of the new server?

I don't like it.

By: frecklefaerie

frecklefaerie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:47:17 -0800

At 14:35 EDT I was still getting the massage message, but at 14:36 EDT all was good. Thanks!

By: rtha

rtha — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:49:45 -0800

I like the tile on the backsplash. Pretty!

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:51:45 -0800

What does this new button do?

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:53:34 -0800

I'm pretty sure that was a 5.4-magnitude downtime on the web Richter scale.

By: brain_drain

brain_drain — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:53:42 -0800

This new admin panel is sweet, thanks!

By: burnmp3s

burnmp3s — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:56:14 -0800

So did everyone else enjoy staring at the status blog as much as I did? I especially liked the white background, very professional.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:56:16 -0800

There was a period where I was getting no response at all. No 'massaged' page. Is that what was supposed to happen?

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:56:38 -0800

Blood. The blood is everywhere. How is it flowing up?

By: roll truck roll

roll truck roll — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:56:43 -0800

I'm still seeing the server outage message. What should I do?

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:58:13 -0800

Thank goodness the colors are still working.

By: hecho de la basura

hecho de la basura — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:58:16 -0800

AskMe, Meta and everything else loads except the main site for me, same as roll truck roll I think.

By: dawson

dawson — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:58:53 -0800

I need a massage with a happy ending now please. That one was hard to watch.

By: dw

dw — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:01:33 -0800

Google Reader appeared to have sucked in comments from this thread into this feed.

I just checked the feed now, though, and it's fine. Appears that Google caught the hiccup at just the wrong moment. But I wanted to note this in case anyone else sees this later.

By: rocket88

rocket88 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:01:40 -0800

The new Metafilter smells weird.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:05:05 -0800

While trying to go to the "Sent Mail" tab of my MeFi Mailbox, I got the following error:

The current user is not authorized to invoke this method.
The error occurred on line 48.
Current Page: http://www.metafilter.com/contribute/messages-sent.mefi
Referring Page: http://www.metafilter.com/contribute/messages.mefi?sent=1
Date and Time: Fri Apr 18 12:03:48 PDT 2008
Your Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0)
Your Location: 216.174.90.61

The error had a link to contact the admins, but that link lead to a plain white sheet with lots of code.

By: Koko

Koko — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:05:28 -0800

Hi rocket88!

By: carsonb

carsonb — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:05:50 -0800

CTRL+SHIFT+R is your friend if you are still seeing outage messages.

By: cashman

cashman — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:05:59 -0800

The new Metafilter smells weird.

WEIRDNESS SPOTTED, MATT.

By: DMan

DMan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:10:11 -0800

While trying to go to the "Sent Mail" tab of my MeFi Mailbox, I got the following error:

I got that as well.

By: cavalier

cavalier — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:10:19 -0800

What PinkSuperhero said. Contact admin page doesn't render and Sent Mail is fubar.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:10:51 -0800

I had to shift-refresh the browser to get Mefi back. Matt, did the placeholder include an 'expires' value? I didn't think to check at the time.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:13:15 -0800

I had a metatalk page that bombed during the outage and then when I refreshed it was an old MeFi page from 2002. I am assuming the switch occurred during the outage, but I wasn't really watching the navigation bar.

That's because the subsites were redirecting to the equivalently numbered thread on MeFi.

I think this might have messed up some people's RSS subscriptions, as it was using the permanent redirect code, and some RSS readers treat such a code as license to change the URL it subscribes to.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:14:21 -0800

Yep, I see the same error on the Sent Mail tab and Contact is borked somehow. Similar problem with the FAQ.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:18:24 -0800

Aw crap. Looks like we have to redo something over again, so there will be about another 30 min of downtime.

By: dawson

dawson — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:20:44 -0800

OK, I'll go crap, but as of this time stamp I'm having hardly any of the above mentioned problems. I feel left out and stupid.

By: TryTheTilapia

TryTheTilapia — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:23:38 -0800

I'm getting raw CF source code when I click on my user ID.

By: Diskeater

Diskeater — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:25:42 -0800

I can't post any comments to MeTa.

By: dawson

dawson — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:27:27 -0800

I'm getting raw CF source code when I click on my user ID.
I'm not. why am I not? Am I in some time loop?

By: carsonb

carsonb — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:27:33 -0800

Just to be assured, any potential security issues are being taken care of promptly and securely, right?

By: TryTheTilapia

TryTheTilapia — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:28:14 -0800

Remedied. Thanks.

By: dawson

dawson — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:30:20 -0800

And if I'm in some time loop, can I make sweet, sweet love to Alex Hamilton?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:35:01 -0800

yeah, there was one unfortunate revealing of a low-security password that protected some software settings in coldfusion (not user stuff on the server at all), which has been changed and bad code was removed.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:36:30 -0800

I'm having zero problems. Is there a line to smooch Hamilton?

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:43:10 -0800

Yeah, it's down for me again now. Anyone else?

Wait.

*freaks out, runs away from computer, outside into the wide, wide flowery lawns of planet Earth*

By: mattbucher

mattbucher — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:44:10 -0800

I got a weird thing in Google Reader where AskMe tags I had subscribed to showed up with MeFi posts tagged with the same keywords. It was a feature more than a bug as I saw some posts I had missed in the past! Bravo!

By: dawson

dawson — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:47:22 -0800

Is there a line to smooch Hamilton?
form orderly line behind me...

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:36:24 -0800

Ok, now everything should be working again...

By: sciurus

sciurus — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:37:07 -0800

Disregard the email I just sent you, then. :)

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:49:45 -0800

Recent activity isn't working for me. I see some code, starting with a comment about how it should be like Flickr's. Which is fun, but as fun as the "Republicans like darker forms of alcohol" thread.

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:50:28 -0800

Disregard that-- now it's back.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:02:45 -0800

Hey everybody, the timeloop server is down.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:05:10 -0800

Hurry, Marty! We've got to save your kids!

By: amyms

amyms — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:09:29 -0800

Yay! We're back!
*hugs everyone while simultaneously scolding them to never, ever disappear like that again*

By: loquacious

loquacious — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:19:30 -0800

Why do I have three legs and quonsar's oddly shaped head? Where's my awesome long hair, damnit?

Also: Way too much spleen. Anyone have a wheelbarrow and a donor registry?

By: heeeraldo

heeeraldo — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:41:47 -0800

I had the same problem as mattbucher; it wasn't just Google Reader - I use NetNewsWire so I think the entire RSS feed system sneezed.

By: Skorgu

Skorgu — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:42:21 -0800

loquacious, you're turning into a penguin. Stop that.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:46:32 -0800

.ǝɹǝɥ ɹǝʌo ǝuıɟ s,buıɥʇʎɹǝʌǝ

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:06:54 -0800

‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉What the fuckity fuck?‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉

By: The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:12:17 -0800

I can't get on the main site! Everything else seems fine.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:12:44 -0800

Is this something I'd need robust unicode support to understand?

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:13:49 -0800

I had to empty the cache before it would work again in Safari.

By: flashboy

flashboy — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:53:17 -0800

Yeah, I was still getting the downtime message for the main site, but murderising the cache filled my computer full of MetaFilter again.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:05:46 -0800

I changed the downtime page to remind people to force a refresh.

By: davejay

davejay — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:00:36 -0800

And if I'm in some time loop, can I make sweet, sweet love to Alex Hamilton?

In the right time loop, you can make sweet, sweet love to Alexander Hamilton.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:04:28 -0800

Hey everybody, the timeloop server is down.

By: brautigan

brautigan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:02:39 -0800

I just came to and found I'm married to Jessamyn. We have three boys, Richard, Hank and Charles. I'm happy, she is less so.

By: i_am_joe's_spleen

i_am_joe's_spleen — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:04:26 -0800

I had subscribed to the comments feed on this MeTa post - http://metatalk.metafilter.com/15823/Mighty-Mighty-Wellington-Meetup/ - and suddenly Google Reader is showing comments from here - http://www.metafilter.com/15823/. Same post ID, so maybe something DNS related?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:08:08 -0800

The weirdest thing just happened....! On preview, yeah.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:01:35 -0800

sorry, joe's spleen, try unsubscribing and re-upping that feed to fix it for sure.

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:25:27 -0800

sorry, joe's spleen, try unsubscribing and re-upping that feed to fix it for sure.

Also, look out for that guy behind you with the wheelbarrow.

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:36:14 -0800

Sed Mi ne dezir ĉio Esperantig!

By: A dead Quaker

A dead Quaker — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:31:20 -0800

Everything seems normal to me--except the rainbow topographical lines emanating from all this fucking text like the characters are the ridgelines of some strange new land. Ah screw it, I'll let you know if it's still happening in the morning when I'm sober.

By: amyms

amyms — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:00:40 -0800

I'll let you know if it's still happening in the morning when I'm sober.

Quakers get drunk!?! Or is it only the dead ones?

By: Catfry

Catfry — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:18:58 -0800

Dead quakers have all the fun

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:16:57 -0800

mattbucher + i_am_joe's_spleen: See my comment above. You might need to fix your subscription URLs.

By: Marie Mon Dieu

Marie Mon Dieu — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:46:23 -0800

I went outside to enjoy the weather. Then I came back and it was still down so I took an antihistamine for my cold and went to bed. When I got up, the colors on my monitor looked better. I've been having trouble adjusting the colors on this new (new to me but used) flatscreen.

So thanks for fixing my monitor, Matt! (or maybe it's the drugs, but thanks anyway)

By: Hobgoblin

Hobgoblin — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:26:51 -0800

My sidebar asserts that there have been no recent meetups and yet I beg to differ, and have witnesses, admins, even. Do I need to apply leeches and call in the morning?

By: thatwhichfalls

thatwhichfalls — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:33:55 -0800

I'm playing Doom3 on my laptop lately.

Sometimes the game makes me run out on the Martian surface, oxygen running low, red dust rising with every step I take as the Hell-born monsters block my way to the air-lock.

MeFi down-time has a similar effect on me.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:19:34 -0800

This isn't working right now:
http://www.metafilter.com/profilephotos.mefi

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:05:49 -0800

Works for me.

By: pb

pb — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:09:58 -0800

The sidebar meetups and profile photos page are back on the air. The "no recent meetups" message wasn't related to the server changes. There were in fact no recent meetups! (Within the last 14 days, anyway.) So now we're showing meetups within the last 20 days in the sidebar.

By: Hobgoblin

Hobgoblin — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:37:12 -0800

PB - Thanks. I conflated ( my dictionary says that's not a word, but I like it) the fact that the meetup thread stays open for 6 months with the longevity of the sidebar info. Now the thread is all bookmarked so I can reminisce anytime I want. Lovely.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:28:41 -0800

Hobgoblin, you need a new dictionary. Perhaps this will help?

By: runincircles

runincircles — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:22:18 -0800

still getting the massage message when I try to access blue, green ok

By: dawson

dawson — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:59:49 -0800

runincircles,
have you forced an update? Cleared cache? Logged out/in? I wonder what browser yr using...
as for me, Hamilton has me plum tuckered.

By: Hobgoblin

Hobgoblin — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:28:12 -0800

Oh gee whiz, I got caught tryin' to be cute. What I really need is a newer, younger mind which remembers how to spell and whether a word means what I think it means. Anyway I did find out the lifespan of a recent meetup sidebar, which is useful information.

By: stagewhisper

stagewhisper — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:44:22 -0800

No problems, just a big "thank you"!
I use Firefox and it used to be that every time I posted something, Firefox would hang and I'd get an error message, although my posts themselves would go through (after a spate of double posts, I finally wised up to this quirk). No error messages or issues with MeFi timing out today.
Thanks Matt!

By: !Jim

!Jim — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:18:12 -0800

The mefi youtube skipper is telling me that I need to get flash, but I have flash. The regular youtube works fine. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.0.0.0.0.14. The youtube deally worked fine recently.

By: pb

pb — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:52:38 -0800

!Jim, we recently updated the YT player code, and everything is being handled by JavaScript now. So if you have JavaScript disabled (or a JavaScript blocking Firefox extension installed), you'll likely get that message.

By: Malor

Malor — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:53:04 -0800

Just wanted to pass along that, from my perspective, this was very smoothly handled. Great job... this kind of thing is so easy to get wrong.

By: !Jim

!Jim — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:48:02 -0800

Oh, I see what it is. It used to be that I could middle-click on the player link to watch the youtube video in a new tab by itself. I like doing that because it can load while I read, and sometimes I just let it play in the background. All without the horror that is youtube comments (and their UI). Any chance we can get that back?

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:21:25 -0800

!Jim: It used to be that I could middle-click on the player link to watch the youtube video in a new tab by itself.

Seconding !Jim. I just noticed that. That's how I used to use the inline YouTube player functionality.

By: no_moniker

no_moniker — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:56:29 -0800

I still get the 'Metafilter is having a massage' message (its sunday). All the other pages work, just not the front page. Odd.

By: Armitage Shanks

Armitage Shanks — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:20:52 -0800

This user page gives me an error.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:30:54 -0800

AS, that's fixed now. Something happened with the profile pic the user was uploading and in an attempt to troubleshoot he re-uploaded it and it stayed broken a little longer than maybe it should have.

By: webhund

webhund — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:47:50 -0800

I'm still getting the massage message (Tuesday p.m.) if I go straight to MeFi home page. Like no_moniker, all other pages work fine and, oddly, I'm able to get to MeFi posts if I come at them through back door links (i.e., via MeFiTalk, AskMeFi, etc....).

By: tidecat

tidecat — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:25:12 -0800

Likewise the massage message (5:30pm EST) if I enter thru the front door.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:29:09 -0800

By the way, whatever problem that required reloading to get a response - mtu settings? - seems to have evaporated. Pages are reliably coming through on the first (not the second) time.

By: webhund

webhund — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:47:14 -0800

As of today, I'm still getting the "massage" message if I come in via the MeFi front door OR the MeFi link at the top of any MeFi page, including this one. Links to specific MeFi posts coming in from other MeFi sites work just fine, as does any MeFi link once I sneak in to MeFi.

As you're not being bombarded with these messages, I'm sure it's not on your end, but what/where should I be looking to fix this? I am not having any other ISP/connectivity or probs accessing any other URL. I'm stumped.

By: pb

pb — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:56:21 -0800

If anyone's still having the "massage" problem, here are a couple things to try. First, load the MeFi front page in your browser and hold down the Shift key while you click the page reload button. This will force your browser to get the latest version of the page, which should be the current front page. If that doesn't work, try clearing your browser cache and reloading the site. Here are some helpful links: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera.