are we alive?

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quite an outage. details soon.

update!

for those who missed it, the forum was down for ~6 hours.

discourse (the forum software) hit a major version change which had many assumed version requirements. we had not updated the server’s OS for… years… rationalized somehow because we wanted to avoid breakage. so it was time to update the system and various blocking failures made this seem like we should just migrate to a new droplet which would’ve been a substantial and fragile task. but we succeeded in the OS upgrade, so we’re good again.

thanks to @ioflow for sounding the alarm and @zzsnzmn for pointing towards a some solutions which unblocked the process.

and thanks for all of the very-alive tunes below

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Bummer that discourse has killed support for “older” browsers. My studio computer on Mojave (Safari 14) now has to browse my fav discourse-based forums on a 2nd browser.

I’m engaged enough to bother doing that, but I can see that cutting off some users who aren’t gonna bother opening up a second browser just to visit a forum.

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C. Thompson, “Everything is alive,” in IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 83-86, Jan.-Feb. 2004, doi: 10.1109/MIC.2004.1260708.

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