I’m going to be taking the site offline for a short period starting Tuesday 2018-03-13 at 2300 CDT (2018-03-14 0400 UTC).
If anything goes wrong, I’ll update on twitter @ElsewhereCafe and you can reach me at bbs.elsewhere.cafe@gmail.com while the site is down.
I’ll be doing the following:
I expect the entire process to take less than 30 minutes. I’ll make a backup before proceeding just in case.
Re: the Discourse betas… I’m still getting the “cannot load app” message often (~50% of the time.) Reloading brings it up. Using Win 7 on Waterfox current version.
Me too, on Win 10 and Firefox 58.0.2, 64 bit. But not on my iPad.
Good catch. I wrote the message, and then the title. Time is hard.
I think I’ve fixed it now.
There exists value in a discourse plugin that allows one to wrap a UTC date in some sort of markup and it appear as a local date for users, much how timestamps on posts currently work.
https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chronos-globe-with-meridians-timer-clock/69281
I will look into installing this tonight.
All done. We’re running the latest version of Discourse, OS updates applied, and we now have 50% more disk space for $5 less per month.
This doesn’t appear to have ever been released. Bummer.
Thank you for the maintenance/upgrade!
For some strange reason, DO makes it less obvious how many vCPUs you currently have allocated, so I was able to go from $20 to $15, rather than $10. Still a savings, though.
The system seems more responsive now. Better code, or a resource increase?
Probably code related. The only thing that changed resource wise was additional SSD space.