SDMB Server Upgrade

I’m late,I’m late,for a very important date…

ZZZOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!

I also cast a vote of thanx. The server was so slow before that I often didn’t bother to wait.

The board was inaccessible for a while, giving me “The page cannot be displayed” error. Now that it’s back, I can search again. Thanks.

In the purely physical sense, we may be, but I doubt the Reader would give up rights to TSD and its properties. Would it be safe to assume that Cecil’s work and its extended universe is the Reader’s most lucartive intellectual property?

Not hardly. THE READER has moved our bits from their server to a hosting company to make more room for their other online stuff; the SD and the SDMB ate all the server capacity in-house, pretty much.

The Straight Dope is a property of the Chicago Reader and has been for many years now. That’s not likely to change. If anything, it’s a sign of their support for us, that they’re willing to spend money on our behalf, and every month, too.

your humble TubaDiva
Administrator

For those who are confused, this post explains why posts #20 and #21 are responding to post #28, which according to time stamps wasn’t posted until several hours after they answered it.

At least, I think that’s the reason – with TubaDiva and Troy McClure, precognition is not totally ruled out! :eek: :smiley:

But now they’ve been partially corrected. It looks to me like posts made since the upgrade, but before the time signature was adjusted, remain out of sequence.

I’m fairly sure it’s generally the hamsters that sever the connections, not us. :smiley:

og knows where this post will land, but my first post should have been AFTER grienspace’s, not 4 posts before it. (funny it’s still listed me as the last post in the thread).

What do you think they have those little gnawing teeth for? :smiley:

(Did you notice that my explanation of why people answered grienspace before he posted also preceded his post? With my luck and the way the board’s been working, this will end up as the OP! :eek: )

Will this sort in between poly and paper?

It did!
Real time is catching up to the afternoon’s warp.
It is now 7:22 CDT.

This is just a test post to see if it will append after Grienspace’s, now that it’s later than the alleged timestamp on his post.

Um, yes, absolutely. Bloody geeks!

So we’re back on.It must have happened between 12:00 and 12:30 AM.At least I assume everyone else has been getting the,“problem with the database” notice I have for 24 hours or more.

Nerve wracking checking every waking hour or less,and getting that non-explanatory sign over and over again.

Like in MPSIMS and IMHO, I have no reason to post here. I have nothing valid to add. Truly, I have nothing of any import to contribute. Yet I contribute. Good for me! Just happy to see it all back up n runnin’.

Grrr,I meant 11:00 and 11:30,of course

Of course.

Well, I was blocked out for over 36 hours, but the board is flying. I like the new cosmetics, too. But, uhhhhh, there are only three threads in each forum and the search doesn’t work.

Who needs search when there’s only three threads in each forum??!! Holy negativity!!

Pfft.