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The site was down for a while this afternoon (2 - 3 hours.) I think the other drive failed. This makes some sense since it was probably from the same batch as the one that failed recently. These things have a life span. Still trying to access damage.
- jim 7-19-2007 3:33 am [link] [4 comments]

We had some fairly major issues yesterday, but it looks like not too much damage. At some point during the day our primary drive failed. Seems like this took a little while (it was exhibiting strange symptoms leading up to the crash.) Once this was detected the drive was pulled and replaced with a backup, thus some things posted yesterday disappeared (from between when the backup was made and the drives switched.) Additionally, the entire site was down from around 11:30pm for the next few hours. I'd appreciate any reports of missing posts/comments. Especially if anyone notices anything missing that was not posted yesterday. Sorry for the hassle.
- jim 7-05-2007 5:03 pm [link] [8 comments]

Having some trouble with comments. Working on it...
- jim 7-04-2007 5:32 pm [link] [2 comments]

Site went down for a few minutes just now. Not sure why. Investigating. No real damage is apparent.
- jim 5-30-2007 1:14 am [link] [add a comment]

We're having some issue with false new comment notices. My guess is that this is related to spam removal. Tom, did you remove a spam recently from Photo of the hexagonal "atmospheric" structure on Saturn and Showing new media work in the gallery threads? Just trying to get to the bottom of this. Sorry.
- jim 4-23-2007 6:54 pm [link] [11 comments]

Page owners now have a tool to help them delete huge spam runs. Go to /spamdelete and follow the instructions there. It's basically like a 'find and delete' script, so the key to it being effective is to pick out a word or phrase you can search all your comments on that will return *just* the spam comments. In practice this isn't very hard because the spams will often contain a weird URL that is similar over all of them (like 289jwa89423w232.spamhost.com) or it will use the bbcode '[url]' link code that we don't use on this site.

Please let me know if you have any trouble using it.
- jim 4-02-2007 7:59 pm [link] [4 comments]

Page owners can now close comments on selected posts. To do so, go to the comment page in question and click the [close comments] link found after the repeat of the initial post. If a comment thread is closed it will still display any previous comments, but it won't show the comment textarea box. To turn it back on: go to the comment thread and click the [open comments] link now found where the [close comments] link was before.

Some old threads are spam magnets. This should take care of that issue.
- jim 2-22-2007 11:22 pm [link] [15 comments]

I am going to try to make some adjustments to deal with the sluggishness of the site. I think I will purge all user accounts of people who haven't visited in over 4 months (keeping, by hand, a few that I recognize.) Hopefully everyone will agree with my thought that this isn't a big deal. If someone wants there account back they just have to sign in with their old name again.

Here goes...
- jim 11-16-2006 11:38 am [link] [add a comment]

I started copying this site to the new server. You don't necessarily have to be aware. But if you were going to upload anything (images I guess) and it didn't matter to you whether you did it now or waited, then you should wait. If you do upload something after I crawl through your directory (but before we switch to the new server) we'll just have to figure it out and copy it over in a second step. So maybe comment here if you do upload stuff this weekend (I don't mean posts, just images.) Not sure yet but maybe I will try to make the switch live for Monday morning.
- jim 9-23-2006 1:21 am [link] [8 comments]

I did some work on the /log system today. You can now have finer grained control over how far back logs are kept. Unfortunately I nuked the entire referrer log table in the process, so everyone's /log has been reset as of about an hour ago. Sorry about that.

- jim 9-05-2006 8:29 pm [link] [3 comments]