It's that new server smell everyone loves so much

February 2, 2009 11:13 PM

The new server: you're soaking in it! We're on the new boxes now, post any bugs or weirdness you find here and we'll work on it as fast as we can.
posted by mathowie to uptime at 11:13 PM (208 comments total)

Wow, that was fast. Excellent job, guys!
posted by zsazsa at 11:17 PM on February 2

woo
posted by andythebean at 11:19 PM on February 2

Thanks fellows. Can I kick the tires?
posted by netbros at 11:20 PM on February 2

The.
posted by mullacc at 11:20 PM on February 2 [6 favorites has favorites]

Congratulations!
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 11:21 PM on February 2

I specifically ordered Corinthian leather.
posted by katillathehun at 11:23 PM on February 2 [2 favorites has favorites]

If you don't see the message "Welcome to the new server!" at the top of the screen, you're not on the new servers yet. DNS has to work its magic across the web before everyone will get to the new servers.
posted by pb at 11:23 PM on February 2

Looks like I can post from my iPhone just fine!

Hey, I just noticed I can't flag or favorite from the preview page.
posted by bodega at 11:24 PM on February 2

Congrats!
posted by salvia at 11:27 PM on February 2

I just tried to edit the description in my profile and got this:

Could not find the ColdFusion Component or Interface CFlickr.Flickr. Ensure that the name is correct and that the component or interface exists.
The error occurred on line 219.

* Current Page: http://www.metafilter.com/contribute/customize.cfm
* Referring Page: http://www.metafilter.com/contribute/customize.cfm
* Date and Time: Tue Feb 03 01:28:11 CST 2009
* Your Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

(I'm on the new server)
posted by julen at 11:29 PM on February 2

Wow. I slept through the move. I feel bad now. Next round on me!
posted by Phire at 11:29 PM on February 2

Oh crap. I have to pay rent for February.
posted by localhuman at 11:31 PM on February 2

Thanks to mathowie, pb and everyone else who worked on the migration.
posted by gen at 11:33 PM on February 2

Thanks, julen. Profile updating should be working now.
posted by pb at 11:35 PM on February 2

Timestamp seems to have gone off by the missing couple of hours, or is it just I need to re-set my local time?
posted by Abiezer at 11:35 PM on February 2

The! The, The, The!!
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 11:35 PM on February 2 [3 favorites has favorites]

Oh thank goodness now I can post important things like this.

Metafilter is my Twitter.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 11:38 PM on February 2

The time was off on Recent Activity comments for a bit, but everything should be lining up now.
posted by pb at 11:39 PM on February 2

Editing my profile's Flickr username is okay, but editing the blurb gets me:

Server Error
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.

Could not connect to JRun Server.

posted by crysflame at 11:39 PM on February 2

crysflame, I just restarted the server. You probably collided with that. Try again and see if you get the error.
posted by pb at 11:41 PM on February 2

Works now!
posted by crysflame at 11:42 PM on February 2

Smooth.
posted by crossoverman at 11:43 PM on February 2

Beautifully done gang, thanks for all your hard work!
posted by dejah420 at 11:51 PM on February 2 [1 favorite has favorites]

Read only is the worst thing ever. There were comments I needed to favorite! But I couldn't. It was awful. I'll have nightmares for weeks.
posted by Caduceus at 11:52 PM on February 2 [4 favorites has favorites]

(Oh, and thanks so much you hard working people you!)
posted by Caduceus at 11:52 PM on February 2

Some of my comments seem dumber than I remember.
posted by stavrogin at 11:56 PM on February 2 [2 favorites has favorites]

What do the "The!" comments mean?
posted by mathowie at 11:59 PM on February 2 [2 favorites has favorites]

Any chance that this change will allow us to get inline images back?
posted by 517 at 12:12 AM on February 3

Nice work guys, I shall drink in your honour. And your parent's honour. And the honour of your children, and siblings. And your immediate and extended family. And the honour of your pets. And your close friends, and your colleagues. And the people you ride on the bus with, and that guy you stopped to buy ice cream from. And your mailman.
posted by turgid dahlia at 12:12 AM on February 3

Any chance that this change will allow us to get inline images back?

No plans for it, sorry.
posted by mathowie at 12:13 AM on February 3

Thank you! I have a backlog of bloviating to accomplish.
posted by BrotherCaine at 12:14 AM on February 3

"The" is the latest in-joke, from the MeTa thread about "Christ, what an asshole," on December 4. This comment resulted in this, and it's snowballed from there. Every couple MeTa threads I've seen since have had one.
posted by Caduceus at 12:14 AM on February 3

Nice use of the UPGRAYEDD tag.
posted by Caduceus at 12:16 AM on February 3 [2 favorites has favorites]

The extra d is for a double dose of processin'
posted by mathowie at 12:17 AM on February 3 [1 favorite has favorites]

HAH, I'm highly amused by the concept of mathowie asking about an in-joke on his own site. Admittedly, it's fairly lame even for an in-joke, but still.
posted by Phire at 12:19 AM on February 3

Love the Idiocracy nod. Is the contact activity sidebar going to make a comeback this week?
posted by BrotherCaine at 12:24 AM on February 3

Here I am! I came through a-okay! All my atoms have reunited in more or less the proper arrangement. Did I always have a third nipple?
posted by taz at 12:30 AM on February 3

BrotherCaine, yep contact activity and search will be back. We're breaking in the new server gently, but we'll have those up and running soon.
posted by pb at 12:31 AM on February 3 [1 favorite has favorites]

Nice job, guys. I actually got some work done over the past couple of mid-afternoon hours.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 12:34 AM on February 3

Awww, man. I was hoping for my own credit in the crafting of the "The" joke, and now I have to act like an asshole and do it myself. Well I won't do it, sirs and madams. No. I. Won't.

But whatever. It's awesome that y'all manajdd this so quickly. For a few hours there I was scratching at my arms, promising to make people feel good. I don't wanna go back there.
posted by Navelgazer at 12:34 AM on February 3

Mmm ... like a hot knife through warm butter. Each click of a link is like the transmission of a brand new Lincoln seamlessly flipping up and down gears. Riding on a cushion of air.

And now, in celebration, WE DANCE
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 12:37 AM on February 3

Sweet! How do we know when we've on the new server?
posted by spiderskull at 12:40 AM on February 3

If you can post a comment, you've arrived.
posted by pb at 12:45 AM on February 3

Sorry Navelgazer. You're right, of course, if you hadn't moved it to a different MeTa thread it probably wouldn't have taken off.
posted by Caduceus at 12:51 AM on February 3

The 44 comments (22 new) feature doesn't appear to be working on MeTa.
posted by netbros at 1:27 AM on February 3

oh my god i can post again

oh my god

so cold
posted by Pope Guilty at 1:29 AM on February 3

Wow, all of MeFi lives on a single server? What's its name?
posted by Eideteker at 3:22 AM on February 3

So can we get the lowdown on the new hardware, or is that TOP SECRET?
posted by SteveTheRed at 3:28 AM on February 3

So can we get the lowdown on the new hardware, or is that TOP SECRET?

Mac IIx
128K RAM
60 MB HD
2 - 3.5" floppies
13" Apple RGB Monitor
System 6.0.7
Print Shop
Aldus Pagemaker 1.0
LaserWriter
posted by maxwelton at 3:41 AM on February 3 [9 favorites has favorites]

Netbros, it looks like it works fine on the first page load, but then unlike the other pages, the last-visited time gets updated on the first pageview of MeTa so those numbers get reset. (In other words, the first time I come to MeTa, I see the right number of new links/comments in the top right as well as the right number of new comments next to the bottom line of each thread... but on all subsequent pageviews, it knows I've been here and resets them to 0 and doesn't display them.) This is unlike the behavior of Ask and Mefi, yep...
posted by delfuego at 3:46 AM on February 3

Baby's got back ... up.

Congrats!
posted by lukemeister at 4:03 AM on February 3

So can we get the lowdown on the new hardware, or is that TOP SECRET?

Ono-Sendai Cyberserver 7
3.2 TB Organic RAM
Upgraded access to SingularityCloud infinite data storage
Hawkingware advanced timestream management
Multiplanar Aethernet - 1PB/s
Microsoft 8 - Cabal Edition
13" Apple RGB Monitor
posted by Rock Steady at 4:12 AM on February 3 [4 favorites has favorites]

Baby's got back ... up.

I like big servers and I can not lie.
posted by gman at 4:25 AM on February 3 [2 favorites has favorites]

Mac IIx

Ono-Sendai Cyberserver 7

You two don't really know, do you?
posted by SteveTheRed at 4:26 AM on February 3

MeFi is just not the same as it used to be.
posted by Pollomacho at 4:28 AM on February 3

I'm still getting the read-only.mefi page when I try to New Post on the blue. Bug or feature?
posted by milquetoast at 4:29 AM on February 3

Since only MetaTalk isn't read-only for me, is it okay to post comments to the appropriate Metafilter threads here, if I attribute them properly?
posted by gman at 4:30 AM on February 3

I seem to be on the new server in MeTa, Jobs, Podcast and Music but not in MeFi and AskMe. On the former the message up top welcomes me to a new server and I can comment but on the latter the message says "read only" and I can't comment. Is that normal or not?
posted by Kattullus at 4:32 AM on February 3

ha nvm i r dum lol
posted by milquetoast at 4:40 AM on February 3

Sweet! How do we know when we've on the new server?

Many MeFi users report a tingly sensation in their extremities and a continuation lack of productivity. Use caution while operating heavy machinery. If your flame out lasts for more than 4 hours, consult your doctor. If you are a self-linker or a double-poster, MeFi might not be right for you.
posted by jerseygirl at 4:49 AM on February 3 [4 favorites has favorites]

May I be the first to offer my hand as sacrifice to the new server? Say yes or I'll CUT OFF MY HAND!!
posted by SteveTheRed at 4:54 AM on February 3

Back on topic, I'm getting slow page loads.
posted by SteveTheRed at 4:58 AM on February 3 [1 favorite has favorites]

Good to hear the swap was smooth and painless.
Things seem to be loading slowly, though.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:01 AM on February 3

Maybe it's just me and my stupid-ass Verizon FIOS settings, but everything is running MUCH slower now. Some pages haven't loaded at all, and eventually timed out.
posted by yhbc at 5:05 AM on February 3

Yep. Very slow loading over here. I almost had time to do something productive.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 5:06 AM on February 3

The shrieking and crying of the damned souls seem louder on this one. Is that on purpose?
posted by Dipsomaniac at 5:06 AM on February 3 [2 favorites has favorites]

It doesn't seem particularly zippy. It's 5 AM (damned insomnia) and all the page loads are taking a long time (fifteen to twenty seconds).

And my first attempt to post this comment just failed.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 5:06 AM on February 3

Wow, that was fast! I think some of us went to bed too early, thinking it would take much longer.

I'm on the new server, too, but everything is loading quite slowly (Teksavvy DSL, Toronto). Tweaks upcoming?
posted by maudlin at 5:11 AM on February 3

Everything is just tickedy-boo over here! Having said that, I've got a very crap system so my opinion means nothing *sob*.
posted by h00py at 5:13 AM on February 3

I noticed slow loading earlier, but I didn't want to be first to whine about it. Sorry, I'm sure you are on it.
posted by BrotherCaine at 5:19 AM on February 3

Actually, it's typically taking 45 seconds for me to load anything.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 5:21 AM on February 3

Also, people don't seem to be favoriting my comments as fast as they were before.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 5:28 AM on February 3 [2 favorites has favorites]

Also, the title block (I don't know what it's officially called) up in the top left corner isn't fully resolving on any of the main pages (MeFi, MeTa, and AskMe). There's still light blue corners on the right-hand side of the oval part enclosing the logo.
posted by yhbc at 5:31 AM on February 3

I'm having a lot of connection resets and slow reloads.

Can you guys publish the old and new IPs so we can wireshark ourselves to get the what's what?
posted by popechunk at 5:40 AM on February 3

The shrieking and crying of the damned souls seem louder on this one. Is that on purpose?

Well, yeah. Where do you think that extra processing power came from?
posted by ArgentCorvid at 5:42 AM on February 3 [1 favorite has favorites]

The new IP address is listed here
posted by SteveTheRed at 5:52 AM on February 3

Ditto on connection resets and slow loading.

But it's so new and clean and shiny in here! And whatever was producing that weird smell seems to have disappeared - I guess it got left behind in the move?
posted by rtha at 5:58 AM on February 3

Slow.

resets.

ahhhhhhggggggg.......
posted by chillmost at 6:04 AM on February 3

Slow loads here in the UK (20 - 30 seconds) and at least one 'Document contains no data' that was fixed by a reload. I'm on a fast corporate network, Windows.
posted by Happy Dave at 6:05 AM on February 3

Yeah, the server is super slow right now and I'm investigating.
posted by mathowie at 6:05 AM on February 3

Kattullus writes "I seem to be on the new server in MeTa, Jobs, Podcast and Music but not in MeFi and AskMe. On the former the message up top welcomes me to a new server and I can comment but on the latter the message says 'read only' and I can't comment. Is that normal or not?"

While the front pages loaded ok for me I had to CTRL+F5 reload them in order for any of the internal links off them to load. Maybe try that.

It's slow loading for me too.

Anyone else missing the MetaTalk Favorite.ico? It's been missing for me since the SQL thing and the new server hasn't brought it back.
posted by Mitheral at 6:06 AM on February 3

slow here too
posted by wheelieman at 6:11 AM on February 3

Also getting connection resets here on TWC in the southeast. DNS is pointing to the correct new IP.
posted by odinsdream at 6:17 AM on February 3

Are the old digs still vacant?
posted by gman at 6:30 AM on February 3

I miss the read-only server.
posted by terrapin at 6:35 AM on February 3

I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
posted by otolith at 6:48 AM on February 3 [2 favorites has favorites]

Its pretty chilly in this new server, can we get a space heater or something?
posted by baphomet at 6:51 AM on February 3

I finally made it to the new server. Things are slow, as others have mentioned.
posted by backseatpilot at 6:55 AM on February 3

You guys left me behind. Here I sit on the side of the dusty road with my suitcase bursting at the seams waiting for the new server. I hum a careless tune, pretending I don't care. Pretending to brave. Secretly, I know it! I know deep down you never really love me.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 6:55 AM on February 3

...still working on the slow server.
posted by mathowie at 6:58 AM on February 3

I am having sporadic connection timeouts. I added the new IP to my hosts file and haven't had any more problems, but who knows if that's related.
posted by mkb at 7:01 AM on February 3

Oh wait! You came. You rescued me from a commentless future. Oh I could just kiss you. Sniff. What's that smell? Oh I love the smell of new server in the morning.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 7:01 AM on February 3

Also, a black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 7:12 AM on February 3 [4 favorites has favorites]

*happy sigh of relief*
posted by Pronoiac at 9:11 AM on February 3

Yay! The world is normal again.
posted by dhruva at 9:14 AM on February 3

ugh. so more work to be done on the new web server, in the meantime I've reverted DNS traffic back to the old web server (the new db server is working like a top). So things should be good again for a while.
posted by mathowie at 9:20 AM on February 3

What's with this javascript stuff that keeps appearing in my profile? The text is all truncated and when I try to edit it there's a javascript link to some site in Asia that Google blocks as containing malware.
posted by Shepherd at 9:21 AM on February 3

I keed.
posted by Shepherd at 9:22 AM on February 3

Old is the new new!
posted by Pronoiac at 9:23 AM on February 3

I think I missed something. All I know is that It works! Is this something I need the interweb to understand?
posted by filthy light thief at 9:23 AM on February 3 [2 favorites has favorites]

Now I tell you how we fly to America.

The first time, we get halfway across when we run out of gasoline. We got to go back.

Then I take twice as much gasoline. This time, we were just about to land, maybe feet... when, what do you think, we run out of gasoline again.

Back we go and get more gas. This time, I take plenty gas. We get halfway over, when what do you think happened? We forgot the airplane.

So we sit down and talk it over. Then I get the great idea... we no take gasoline. We no take the airplane. We take steamship. And that, friends, is how we fly across the ocean.

—Chico Marx, A Night at the Opera
posted by grouse at 9:26 AM on February 3 [3 favorites has favorites]

post any bugs or weirdness you find here

I had a bad dream!
posted by jessamyn at 9:27 AM on February 3 [3 favorites has favorites]

I'm watching the Jane Seymore Kay Jewelers commercial and it's making me want to break something. It's a fucking doodle that everyone made in grade school that she's hawking for chrissake.
posted by mrmojoflying at 9:29 AM on February 3 [1 favorite has favorites]

Oh Meta
Well, you came and upgraded the server
But you then went away
Oh Meta
Well, you came back and stopped me from shaking
And I need you today
Oh Meta
posted by inigo2 at 9:30 AM on February 3 [2 favorites has favorites]

mrmojoflying - but did your doodle sparkle? She's got you there.
posted by filthy light thief at 9:30 AM on February 3

Oh, by the way, the IP address isn't helpful for those using proxies. That's not as relevant with the quick DNS propagation & read-only mojo, at least.
posted by Pronoiac at 9:33 AM on February 3

It's actually a little reassuring when something goes wrong and it's not my fault.
posted by yhbc at 9:34 AM on February 3

I just want to tell you both- aw, frig.

Nicely done, kudos!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 9:36 AM on February 3

Great job on the move, guys. So far, the new server smokes.

And how funny that the very first Meta thread on the new server involves drama, eh? Now we just need a flameout to sanctify the new machine and ensure a long and useful service life.
posted by Malor at 9:38 AM on February 3

Google Web Text (first stop after clicking "show original item" from GReader on thee iPhone with "format web pages for viewing on mobile phone" option) insists that the server isn't responding. Clicking through to MeFi has it all right (on the old server). Is this just Google having the new server IP, or did Google get blackballed or something?

Oh, and the hallway smells funny.
posted by subbes at 9:41 AM on February 3

It's a fucking doodle that everyone made in grade school that she's hawking for chrissake.

I see a Z. Or two butts. I do not see hearts.
posted by jamaro at 9:44 AM on February 3

I'm just kind of spinning in circle at this point.
posted by cortex at 9:45 AM on February 3

The advertising brains at Kay had a sitdown about it and decided the "Double Butt Necklace" wasn't reaching their core market.
posted by jerseygirl at 9:48 AM on February 3 [1 favorite has favorites]

I just wanted to introduce myself as your new neighbor. I'm the guy two floors up in the apartment across the way, with the telescope.
posted by maxwelton at 9:49 AM on February 3

oow
posted by andythebean at 9:49 AM on February 3

It kind of looks like a pair of stylized scrota to me.
posted by uncleozzy at 9:50 AM on February 3

Could we rename the "ask" site "travel" so we can tell its new?
posted by Pants! at 9:50 AM on February 3

Also, a black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it.
posted by desjardins at 9:51 AM on February 3

Heh, I didn't even realize we weren't on the new server -- it's WAY faster than it was, even on the old one.
posted by Malor at 9:51 AM on February 3

(with credit to this comment)
posted by desjardins at 9:52 AM on February 3

DAMN YOU FUELLY!
posted by cowbellemoo at 9:56 AM on February 3

When I first logged on about an hour ago, the metafilter URL took me to a page that said "It works!" in black text on a white screen. Nothing to click, nothing about how to get to the new location. Is that what was supposed to happen, and will it happen again when we switch over again?
posted by amyms at 10:01 AM on February 3 [1 favorite has favorites]

Put it in H.
posted by Paid In Full at 10:06 AM on February 3 [1 favorite has favorites]

You'll know it's working when you get a tingling sensation in your scalp.
posted by ALongDecember at 10:07 AM on February 3

Can we stay here on the old server? This is faster than I've ever seen Metafilter.
posted by CunningLinguist at 10:08 AM on February 3

Whenever I have apache problems, it's always MaxRequestsPerChild. Always.
posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 10:14 AM on February 3

My guess is that it's fast because very few have realized that it's back yet.
posted by Pronoiac at 10:22 AM on February 3

My guess is that it's fast because very few have realized that it's back yet.

So does that mean we should just, I don't know, delete them? Trim the herd up a little, let the weak go, etc.
posted by rand at 10:24 AM on February 3

Oh, right, it's running from the new db.

Hang on - the db & the webserver have always run on the same system until now?
posted by Pronoiac at 10:38 AM on February 3

Hang on - the db & the webserver have always run on the same system until now?

Nope, they've been separate since late 2004. We're just having issues with apache on the new web server, so we have the old web server serving up the sites right now, but using a new database server.
posted by mathowie at 10:45 AM on February 3

The new db server has a bit more oomph (dual quad or eight core at 2ghz) than the previous version, so the speediness could just be from all the much faster queries taking place.
posted by mathowie at 10:47 AM on February 3

Geez, you'd think that the landlords would have cleaned some of the crap around the old server while it was empty. I just stepped in some Paramus.
posted by Dipsomaniac at 10:47 AM on February 3 [1 favorite has favorites]

Trim the herd up a little

I have a list all ready and waiting.
posted by CunningLinguist at 10:49 AM on February 3

Memory will make a huge difference as well if it can cache the most commonly requested stuff. The fact that page views are customized by user and your DB server process is remote can make caching strategies very complicated, though, but more memory is always a good thing.
posted by George_Spiggott at 10:51 AM on February 3

I thought most of the users didn't log in though.
posted by grouse at 11:01 AM on February 3

It kind of looks like a pair of stylized scrota to me.

I tell you, cello scrotum is a hoax!
posted by lukemeister at 11:01 AM on February 3

Man, this is faster than hosting local.
posted by odinsdream at 11:54 AM on February 3

rand : So does that mean we should just, I don't know, delete them? Trim the herd up a little, let the weak go, etc.

A single deletion is a tragedy, a million is a Tuesday.
posted by quin at 11:58 AM on February 3

TRUNCATE TABLE [dbo].[USER]
posted by blue_beetle at 12:15 PM on February 3

IT WORKS!

grmblgrmbl...stupid dns servers hurry up...grmbl...
posted by cimbrog at 12:16 PM on February 3

Hey, let's clear temporary internet files!
Durrrr durrrrr durrrr...

my sincerest apologies to the DNS servers.
posted by cimbrog at 12:22 PM on February 3

Yeah, still doing /etc/hosts workaround, but yep. No problems noticed yet.
posted by zengargoyle at 12:26 PM on February 3

Hmmm. The deleted post greasemonkey script is, apparently, borked.
That is all.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 12:32 PM on February 3

IT WORKS! (Where "IT" is me, and "WORKS" is "SITS AT WORK AND GNASHES TEETH AND DOESN'T WORK OR FART AROUND ON METAFILTER!")
posted by dirtdirt at 1:12 PM on February 3

Does anybody read the comments down here?
posted by Pater Aletheias at 1:13 PM on February 3 [2 favorites has favorites]

Don't know if it's been reported in the comments above, but the MetaTalk logo is on the top left corner of the MetaFilter front page.
posted by jchgf at 1:15 PM on February 3

Explorer and Chrome both work.
Firefox and Metafilter is giving me a professional white background and;

(<>)

Ask, music, jobs, project and talk are all normal but not Metafilter proper.
Also, sticking the url into the address bar gets me to the blue but displays the Metatalk logo.
posted by phoque at 1:29 PM on February 3

cflocation url="http://www.metafilter.com/index.cfm" addtoken="No"

Should be inside the arrows.
posted by phoque at 1:30 PM on February 3

Also should be IP not url.
posted by phoque at 1:36 PM on February 3

MetaTalk is the only subsite working for me right now. Interestingly, if I plug the IP address listed on the status blog directly into the address bar, I get the Metafilter main site, but I can't log in.

Looks like I'll be at work late today, too. This one thread might have to be my distraction.
posted by backseatpilot at 1:36 PM on February 3

Next step: SkyNet.
posted by eyeballkid at 1:37 PM on February 3

Stop toying with my heart nerdiness.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 1:45 PM on February 3

favicons are gone :(
posted by nitsuj at 1:51 PM on February 3

Hmmm. The deleted post greasemonkey script is, apparently, fixed.
That is all.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 2:10 PM on February 3

I just noticed that if you type in x.metafilter.com in the address bar, where x is a character string that does not correspond to an existing subsite, it just routes you to the main page. Has that always been there?
posted by backseatpilot at 2:11 PM on February 3

it just routes you to the main page. Has that always been there?

For the last two to three years, yeah. Before that people used to make all sorts of fake.hilarious.joke.domains.for.metafilter.com but google started indexing them all and I wanted to stop that.
posted by mathowie at 2:41 PM on February 3

still get:
metafilter.com. 20M IN A 74.53.68.130
;; FROM: *me* to SERVER: ns1.easydns.com 66.225.199.10
;; WHEN: Tue Feb 3 14:58:27 2009
(pacific time)
ns1, ns2, remote1, remote2 (easydns.com)
posted by zengargoyle at 3:02 PM on February 3

;; ANSWER SECTION:
metafilter.com. 20M IN A 74.53.68.130
metafilter.com. 20M IN SOA ns0.easydns.com. admin.easydns.com. (
1233680585 ; serial
6H ; refresh
2H ; retry
1W ; expiry
20M ) ; minimum
posted by zengargoyle at 3:03 PM on February 3

no.talent.assclown.metafilter.com
posted by carsonb at 3:16 PM on February 3

Well, you learn something new every day. Especially days when you're bored and are trying to make a website break.
posted by backseatpilot at 3:38 PM on February 3

zengargoyle, we moved DNS back to the old server, like it says on the status blog. You should still be getting the old 74.* IP.
posted by mathowie at 4:18 PM on February 3

Smells like wet dog in here. Do you smell it? Oh man, you moved into a server that smells like wet dog! HAHAHAHA.... (cracking open another beer)
posted by not_on_display at 6:31 PM on February 3

"post any bugs or weirdness you find here"

OK, the "new comments" count hasn't updated since the switchover/switchback/wherever we are now. What I mean by that is that every thread since last night has the same number of comments and "new" comments, like so:

9 comments (9 new) +
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 6:35 PM on February 3

"post any bugs or weirdness you find here"

I can't favorite anything. If the page is scrolled down, clicking on [add to favorites] or [+] brings the page up to the top and that's it.
XP FF3 cookies have been deleted
posted by bru at 7:44 PM on February 3

bru, check for NoScript (or something similar) preventing the execution of mefi's javascript stuff. Some of it is hosted on google, if you're doing per-domain whitelisting and only including mefi.
posted by cortex at 8:06 PM on February 3 [2 favorites has favorites]

check, allow googleapis.com and metafilter.com.. favorites work as before (I think).
posted by zengargoyle at 8:31 PM on February 3

"post any bugs or weirdness you find here"

The image tag isn't working for some strange reason. Can we have that back as soon as possible?
posted by clearly at 8:35 PM on February 3 [5 favorites has favorites]

Add/Remove favorite seems to work. :)
posted by zengargoyle at 8:49 PM on February 3

Everything working fairly smoothly for me. Every once in a while I'll get a timed out connection, but I'm not sure that isn't a problem on my end.
posted by schyler523 at 9:11 PM on February 3

I get the same thing as Mr. Crash Davis Jr: Electric Boogaloo.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:18 PM on February 3

Thanks, cortex and zengargoyle: it was in Adblock.
posted by bru at 4:58 AM on February 4

February 3rd, the Day the Server Died.
posted by Pollomacho at 5:50 AM on February 4

Same issue ROU just mentioned with the new comments not updating.
posted by Mouse Army at 6:05 AM on February 4

I also get the same thing as crash and ROU_X. But I'm guessing that'll be fixed when we move back over to the new server again?
posted by middleclasstool at 6:12 AM on February 4

Anyone else get the read-only kitten?
posted by fleacircus at 8:31 AM on February 4

No, can I have a kitten?
posted by desjardins at 8:48 AM on February 4

How come HE got a kitten and I didn't?
posted by desjardins at 8:48 AM on February 4

boyzone.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:51 AM on February 4

HAVE A KITTEN
posted by cortex at 9:01 AM on February 4

I got a cat submitted by some Josh Millard guy. Can I have another?
posted by yhbc at 9:10 AM on February 4

It's listing all comments as "New since you last visited" (i.e. in parentheses), on all three sites for me.

I'm on Firefox.
posted by availablelight at 9:34 AM on February 4

BRAND NEW DAY COMMENT
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 10:43 AM on February 4

It's listing all comments as "New since you last visited" (i.e. in parentheses), on all three sites for me.

Me too.
posted by pjern at 10:56 AM on February 4

If you're seeing all comments as new try signing out and back in. You might have a bad "last visit" time set from all the server moving shenanigans.
posted by pb at 10:59 AM on February 4

Nope, still the same.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 11:01 AM on February 4

Sorry about that. Looks like it might take a 1.) clear cookies to remove the session-related cookies, 2.) login 3.) load Ask MetaFilter front page, 4.) reload Ask MetaFilter front page.

We'll have all this sorted out in the next few days.
posted by pb at 11:09 AM on February 4

what is this "logging out" of which you speak?
posted by desjardins at 11:24 AM on February 4 [3 favorites has favorites]

I'm kind of having the same issue as crash. I logged out/in, and now AskMeFi updates new posts/comments accordingly but the blue and gray still fail me.
posted by jmd82 at 11:41 AM on February 4

I rebooted the internet, but my google is interfractinating badly with the Yahoo. Should I reinitialize it again, or just delete my BIOS?
posted by blue_beetle at 12:05 PM on February 4

Day 3: still no Metafilter. I'm starting to see posts in the blue ocean. Wet sand reminds me of MeTa grey. Attempted to discuss fixies with several seagulls. They bit my toes and flew away. I think I just got flagged.

Ate the last of my shoe for dinner. Still unsure how the laptop is getting powered on this island. But I think my sanity is still holding.

May have to declaw my cat tomorrow if things don't improve.
posted by backseatpilot at 12:22 PM on February 4 [2 favorites has favorites]

Error when trying to view favourited comments:
(on this page: http://www.metafilter.com/favorites/17645/comments/

The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: CFSTOREDPROC
The error occurred on line 214.
Current Page: http://www.metafilter.com/favorites/17645/comments/
Referring Page: http://www.metafilter.com/favorites/17645
Date and Time: Wed Feb 04 12:20:50 PST 2009
Your Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB5; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Your Location: 38.112.113.4
posted by davey_darling at 12:23 PM on February 4

Anytime you see "The request has exceeded the allowable time limit" in the message somewhere that's code for "The server is bogged down." These are always a temporary error that will correct themselves once the server is back up to speed. Lately that requires a services restart, and we have them about once every hour.

Our move to new hardware should get rid of these timeout errors, and hopefully that will happen in the next few days.
posted by pb at 12:28 PM on February 4

FYI, new comments are updating on all sites for me now.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 1:56 PM on February 4

davey_darling, that's because you have 7 billion favorites.
posted by desjardins at 3:34 PM on February 4

Day 3: still no Metafilter.

backseatpilot, have you looked into HOSTS file hacking? You can command your computer to visit the right server using that.
posted by mathowie at 7:32 PM on February 4

desjardins: You are probably correct - I just tried looking at your favourites in exactly the same way and it worked fine.
posted by davey_darling at 8:02 PM on February 4

A possibly insignificant data point to add to the pile, since I know it's been said before that LoFi is not being actively maintained - but it doesn't seem to be picking up deleted posts any more.
posted by yhbc at 5:31 AM on February 5 [1 favorite has favorites]

Ooh, I figured it out. A ctrl+F5 seems to have cleared out the pipes.

Back to slacking!
posted by backseatpilot at 5:52 AM on February 5

yhbc, you are correct that you shouldn't rely on any feature at all being present in lofi, as it's not an official or maintained page. And pb addressed the lack of deleted threads here, so you're right, it's the new reality.
posted by delfuego at 8:43 AM on February 5

"Long live the New Flesh!"
posted by jessamyn at 8:56 AM on February 5

Ah, I missed that. Okay, then.
posted by yhbc at 9:10 AM on February 5

Mmm, yeah. I was going to mention the lofi thing too, 'cause that's what I browse on my BlackBerry, but .. shit. Whatever.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 12:26 PM on February 5

Anybody else seeing "32 of 45 favorites" etc. in the Popular Favorites tab? I must have missed something. What's that about?
posted by jabberjaw at 4:05 PM on February 5

jabberjaw, at the top of the Popular Favorites page there's this: "Here's a quick guide to what the numbers mean."
posted by pb at 4:07 PM on February 5

And yeah, the favorites count isn't very intuitive. You just have to learn what they mean. It'd be nice if we could find a way to show the counts without needing to link to the FAQ to explain them.
posted by pb at 4:16 PM on February 5

Why not x favorites in time selected out of y total?
posted by BrotherCaine at 4:57 PM on February 5

"y favorites, x in the past week."
posted by Pronoiac at 5:21 PM on February 5 [1 favorite has favorites]

Don't forget to turn your DNS timeouts back up, now that the dust has settled. :)
posted by Malor at 11:47 PM on February 11