Mahz

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@FantasyChic Thanks. That sounds like a bug. I'll look at the code to see how the server could get the tab wrong long that.

@Lady Amalthea Thanks for the list. That helps a lot.

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@FantasyChic My code changes have not yet been pushed to the server.

I'm assuming you're talking about the timeout errors? I'm investigating that. :(

Looks like it's caused by some slow database queries on the critical path.

Update: Gonna tweak the logging on the database which will trigger a reboot of the database at some point soon.

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any chance of any new features for the more visible parts of the guild?

@Ellri

I have a lot on my plate with the code/platform upgrade. I'm probably 70% done with the code update after working on it for 10+ hours yesterday and for hours today so far. Trying to finish that up today.

Though since the Guild code has so many pathways through it, it's hard for me to test every bit of functionality myself. So when I push the update, I'll be spending time fixing bug regressions that people will run into.

One side-effect is that the code is being somewhat cleaned up and modernized which will let me implement other things faster.

After the platform update, my 2nd priority is the timeout issues since I hope the platform upgrade magically helps out with that.

Then my 3rd priority is to catch up with admin/mod stuff. It's 3rd priority because these timeout issues are pretty catastrophic so I want to figure that out first.

I'll be working on the Guild all week.

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I'm currently updating the source code to adapt to major (breaking) changes in the underlying framework.

Quite an undertaking due to the size of the Guild's code.

Update: I'll continue working on this for the rest of the weekend. I reckon I'm 50% done with the source code upgrade.

Unfortunately I haven't yet spent much time tracking down the root of the timeout errors, so I hope yall can endure in the meanwhile.

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Okay, my Day of the Guild starts now.

Yeah, no clue about the errors at the moment. The server is taking too long to respond, and I need to find out why. Could be that a common database query needs to be optimized which would explain why all 4 mini-servers get brought down.

I just opened my laptop so I'll start digging into logs and metrics.

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I'm dedicating Saturday (today, after I wake up) to the Guild, which will involve some admin stuff Hank and I have chatted about, but also a platform upgrade for the Guild's underlying software stack.

I've also been evaluating moving the Guild to a new host.

Cya soon.

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@Hank I haven't been on Facebook in months -_-

I will have to get back on it soon, but my skype is dan_neu if you have it. That's the main thing I'm on these days.

Greetings fellow space travelers!

Welcome @stardust

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The server has been in a weird state for 6 hours while I slept, and yall's statuses report the same.

I rebooted the server and things are working now, but I'm looking into why.

Sorry for catching these slowly. They always seem to start when I'm asleep. I know it's really disruptive when you're trying to submit a post or something like that and it just doesn't work.

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@Buddha I'm not sure what the issue is, yet.

The database upgrade I did a while back was so effective that I didn't have to do any performance work on the Guild for some time.

So I'm not sure it's directly related to user load.