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• A few improvements at AskWoody

  Posted on March 29, 2018 at 05:59 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  You may have noticed that the site’s faster today. That’s because of some very remarkable programming from our devs at Fantasktic. Highly recommended.

  Also, if you’ve been having problems getting email notifications when you “Subscribe” to certain topics, that problem’s been solved (or at least ameliorated), also thanks to Fantasktic.

  I’m still seeing some odd problems — the “welcome” email, in at least one case, points to links on the site that don’t work; caching is still not quite right — but by and large, I’m very happy.

  Have you seen any problems?

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• I think we’re back. Are you seeing any problems?

  Posted on March 27, 2018 at 15:13 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  

  The server switch has gone through.

  The posts you see here are the “permanent” ones. Anything that you don’t see here didn’t make it through the transition.

  Please push and pull at everything and let me know if you hit any problems!

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• New server is going live right now

  Posted on March 26, 2018 at 19:18 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Every time you change servers, it takes a while for the change to “take.” In tech speak, the DNS entry has to propagate. That usually happens for most people pretty quickly, but for some people it’ll take many hours, or even a day.

  In the interim, some folks will see the old site, and some will see the new site. Right now, on my main machine, I’m still seeing the old site.

  I’ll keep you up to date, but in the interim there may be a hiccup where things you post may not “take.” For that, I apologize, but I sure hope you’ll find the change is worthwhile…

  UPDATE: Looks like I’m on the new server now.

  

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• Movin’ on up

  Posted on March 19, 2018 at 11:58 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  We’re in the process of changing to a more secure, more resilient, and much faster server.

  Yeah, I know, you’ve heard that before. With our growth rate (the Lounge didn’t exist until a year ago!), it’s very hard to keep up.

  Might take a day or two, but I think you’ll notice a difference.

  Be braced for a little hiccup soon, followed by (Oh man, I hope) clear sailing.

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