◆ PARALLAX

[staff] Server move is done. We are on the new box -- more disk, a kinder host, and a backup that actually RUNS, which the old one had quietly stopped doing in a manner i would rather not dwell on at length.

If you see broken images on old threads (the avatar paths shifted in the move and i'm fixing the redirects), search being slow for a day or two while it rebuilds the index, or your post count looking wrong -- report it in THIS thread, please, and not in seventeen separate ones across nine boards.

For the morbidly curious, here is what served this community for four years, in a basement, on a prayer and a Perl script that exactly none of us fully understood and all of us were afraid to touch. It has earned its retirement. Nothing was lost in the move; i checked three times because i could not believe it either. Carry on.

8 SEP

That photo is a war crime and also exactly what I pictured. The fact that this place ran on THAT for four years is the most convincing argument against the fed-honeypot theory I have ever seen -- no agency would let their kit get that damp.

Bug report as requested: all my avatars are broken on the wood-knocks megathread, just the little broken-picture squares now. Posts are fine, just the pictures.

[staff] Known -- avatars and member-posted photos are the same redirect problem and they are top of my list. The images are not GONE, the box just lost the path to them in the move and I am rebuilding the map by hand. Give me a few days. Text first, pictures second; that is the triage.

Faster. Noticeably faster. The board used to hang for a full second when you opened a long thread and now it just opens. Whatever you did, it took. Thank you, and ignore the people who are about to fill this thread with complaints -- you have clearly got your hands full and a working backup is worth a week of broken thumbnails.

Posting on behalf of QRP_Quentin, who cannot log in -- the new box is not sending him the password-reset email, he has tried three times and checked his bulk folder. He asked me to flag it here since he literally cannot post the bug himself. Might not be only him; reset mail is exactly the kind of thing that breaks silently in a host move (new mailserver, no reverse DNS yet, half the world bounces you). Worth a look when you surface for air.

[staff] Good catch and yes -- reset mail from the new box is getting greylisted because the host's reverse DNS is not set up yet. I have a ticket in with them. Quentin and anyone else locked out: sit tight, do NOT keep hammering the reset button (it makes it worse), and it will start flowing once the DNS propagates. Thanks K7 for relaying.

Hello, I hope this is the right place. I am writing from my husband's old work laptop because my big computer in the study stopped working on Sunday night. The screen is just black and white on this little one and very slow and I can barely see the letters.

I understand from this thread that you moved the server on Sunday. That is exactly when my computer stopped. I am not clever with the technical but that does seem like rather a coincidence, and I would be very grateful if you could move the server back, because all my seed records and my son David's thesis backups are on the big machine and he submits in the spring.

Thank you kindly for your help.

[staff] Hello Marjorie, and welcome -- you are in the right place and that is a perfectly reasonable thing to wonder. I do need to gently explain something though, and I promise I am not being unkind: the server we moved is the computer that runs THIS website, in a basement many hundreds of miles from you. It is not connected to your computer at home in any way. Moving it cannot have switched your study machine off, any more than rearranging a library in Boston could turn off your kitchen light.

It really does sound like your home computer has its own, separate problem -- which is rotten timing, I know. Is there a grandchild or a neighbour who could take a look at it? If you tell us what it does (any beeps, any message on the screen before it went dark) the prep and comms folk here are genuinely good at this and will help.