Update: Maintenance is done. If you notice anything out of the ordinary let us know in the comments!
Kunjan and I will be doing some site maintenance tonight after 10 pm EST. During this time you may not be able to post comments.
This is a major technical upgrade for us. As long as things don’t go really bad (fingers crossed), you shouldn’t notice any difference tomorrow morning. As part of this upgrade, we may also be moving our server (again) to an undisclosed location in the United States (as part of our security measures) and so a DNS update can cause some of you to be looking at the site on the old server (depending on your ISP’s service or where you are in the world).
We will update this post once everything is back to normal. I’ll leave the comments open. After maintenance, please let us know here if you notice anything broken (if comments are working) or email me at chaitan [at] sepiamutiny.com.
Thank you for your support and patience while we continue to keep all the pieces working.
Upgrade going ok so far. Phew!
done!
testing – is this the old site or the new one? Guys?
This is the new site. We are still working out a few small issues, but the major upgrade has been completed.
Yay!
The site has been very slow – it wasn’t taking this long to load last week. Just wanted to y’all to know.
Someone has duplicated an article in the news column and has changed the headline to a vulgar, disgraceful, insulting and highly inflammatory headline. Could you remove it? It is easy enough to spot and certainly violates SM policy.
The comments on some of the older posts (like the one about call center workers) are no longer visible. But they still show up on search results.
@Prasad The site should load up significantly faster now.
@TTCUSM Found the bug. Will be fixed tomorrow however.
Thank you everyone who have taken time to report bugs.
Some of the apostrophe marks in the news column is showing up as some other kind of symbols.
Thanks Quicksilver. We are working on this issue.
All posts on Bollywood thread are coming as Anonymous.
My news posts are showing as being posted as an alphanumeric # instead of my login name – I believe others have had this issue as well. TypePad advised that issue is on the blog side of things and not them. Just an fyi.
Kunjan,
The comments on the call center post are showing up. However, the comments on other posts aren’t (like this one about an India Day parade).
OK, the comments on both threads are showing up.
I found some more bugs.
The comments on the “Are we American?” thread aren’t showing up…
I noticed a few more bugs. All comments by the user “BidiSmoker” have disappeared. For example, in this thread, people are replying to BidiSmoker’s comments, but the originals aren’t visible.
Is this a bug? Or were all his comments deleted on purpose?
my comments are not showing up…Oct. 7th, 2009
Oct 07 2009: The thread on New Data from the World of Genetics: “There is no North-South divide”? doesn’t show up for me. Other pages do.
yes, it is creating a http 500 error, which likely means that something on the page is triggering a bug in one of the backend scripts.
And some of us can’t wait to see what else pingpong has to say about Salma Hayek!
Thanks for reporting this problem. Fixed it.
Thanks Chaitan!
Thanks again, Chaitan. The comments on all the previous threads (that I’ve looked at) are showing up now.
BTW, I noticed another strange bug… Some of Anna’s previous comments, like this one, aren’t showing any links in the handle. I assume she was trying to link to “anna@sepiamutiny.com”? Because in this thread, she linked to her own personal blog, and it rendered just fine…