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Hey Everyone.

I wanted apologize for the delay in getting the site back online today.

What happened is that one of our many elves happened to click a wrong button causing all of the "Author Taxonomy" to disappear. That may sound like an easy fix, of just rolling back the database, but in doing so we would have lost a couple new stories, and blogs that we didn't want to disappear.

As such I had to play surgeon of sorts and edit a 9+GB database backup and select only certain data that we wanted to restore and not over-write everything. This was hindered by the fact that one of the last big updates to drupal completely changed the structure of what is stored where and we had to track down where what was stored and how other modules accessed it since there is no standard schema (map) that covers everything including our own modifications.

If anyone happens to see anything wonky, please let me know. I've spent a lot of time ensuring I got everything, but we all know I'm not perfect.

-HuGgLeS-
-Piper

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There are times when we just

There are times when we just can't convey how much respect we should have for you for all of the hard work you folks put into the site. You do too much for too little.

Sorry for the additional work during the outage, I should have held off until I was absolutely certain things were back to normal.

I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime

Thanks Piper and crew.

It's sort of like withdrawal to not find the site online! LOL Thanks for all you all do.

Catherine Linda Michel

As a T-woman, I do have a Y chromosome... it's just in cursive, pink script. Y_0.jpg

Hard work

jennifer breanna's picture

You do a great job, for not a lot of appreciation. Thanks for all your hard work Piper.

Jenni

As an elf...

Frank's picture

It would be helpful to know what was clicked or what not to click :)

{{Hugs}}

Hugs

Frank

We fixed it

erin's picture

We fixed it so the elves should not be able to see that screen now. :)

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

ahh, then the 503 error

Dawnfyre's picture

for the last few hours was just forgetting to throw up the work in progress page again?


Stupidity is a capital offense. A summary not indictable.

Nope

erin's picture

Most likely, you got a 503 in your cache and did not clear it.

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Might also mention...

erin's picture

...that Cat restored the story that got posted in the brief window when the site was back up by mistake. :) Good thing we noticed it or it would have gotten lost.

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Thank you.

I appreciate your hard work.

Thank you.

Gwen

Hugs

erin's picture

Thanks, hon.

Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Best laid plans

When I got the women at work screen I thought "No problem, I'll just go back to rereading Jem," it wasn't until I went to click on the bookmark that I realized that since I was reading it on BC that was out also. That's when the withdrawal symptoms started.


"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin

Hugs

erin's picture

Sorry about that.

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Been there, done that

Appreciate the difficulties! But have been retired 16 years now, and would hate to have to get back to it. But nice to get the service back afterthe somewhat frightening messages I got last night.
Best wishes
Dave

Something has changed

BarbieLee's picture

Ladies, I appreciate your under rewarded efforts. Those who run the ship are never given the credit for all the hidden time and talent it takes to make a company work. It isn't easy, it doesn't come without the mental ability to multitask a couple dozen things at the same time. There are very very few nine to five people who understand the nuances of what it takes and even fewer who could do the job.

For the skills, time, and unbelievable intelligence all you ladies put into BC, thanks isn't enough.

Soon, sooner than we think possible, we all look back at what our lives consisted of and what we did. For most of us it certainly wasn't what we planned when we left school and our youth behind. For me, I ask God, am I leaving the world better than when I came? There is always, "next time".
Have fun with life, it's too short to take it seriously
always,
Barb

Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl

Many thanks

Keeping a website running is no easy task. Thanks for all you do.

Hiker_JPG_1.jpg

When BC is down....

Andrea Lena's picture
never-mind-emily-litella.jpg

I hold its hand and smile warmly, saying quietly, "Shhh.... it's okay to cry..." What? Not that kind of down? Not working? That's another thing entirely.... Never mind...

  

To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle
Love, Andrea Lena

possible bug

Brooke Erickson's picture

I had a pinned tab for http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/brooke-erickson

But now I get a page not found error from cloudflare.

Going thru the steps that got me the original link gives me this url:
http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/taxonomy/term/7292

Not sure if this is a bug, slow update of the cloud server, or an intended change, but I thought I'd mention it.

Brooke brooke at shadowgard dot com
http://brooke.shadowgard.com/
Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world
"Lola", the Kinks

Author link broken?

CLicking on author "Ricky" just gets "not found" note. Is this related to this downtime or has he pulled his entries? Thanks.

I've gotten it several times

I've gotten it several times with other author pages, you aren't the only one to have this issue.

I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime

Please send a note

as to which authors to Erin or Sephrena.

I do think that if you are looking by bookmarked pages you may need to update them

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Found another one

Brooke Erickson's picture

Go to the bottom of the "home" page ( http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/node )

It thinks there aren't any pages before you brought the system back up.

You can manually add a "page=" value to get back farther, but I'm not certain that isn't skipping some stuff.

Brooke brooke at shadowgard dot com
http://brooke.shadowgard.com/
Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls
It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world
"Lola", the Kinks