A few months ago, we had to box up old comments. I am happy to announce that they have been unboxed and are likely to remain so.
Second, in the coming weeks we will be changing web-hosts again, hopefully for the last time for a while. There may be some minor disruptions.
Thanks to your generosity, we were able to upgrade our service plan. Hopefully this will help us address some of our performance issues.
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Y’all.
@will-truman has WAY understated in this brief post just how much technological and administrative chaos he’s been wrestling with behind the scenes to keep things running smoothly here. While raising a little one at home, among other challenges he’s balancing.
This would be a good opportunity to express your appreciation of his efforts — editorial and technical — keeping a nearly-seamlessly-administered, good-looking, well-written, and most of all appropriately-cultured online magazine operational.
Props, my friend.Report
hear hearReport
Thank you Trumwill and everyone else who supports the site directly with their time and labor.Report
2nd That!Report
I can’t speak to the technical efforts (I still call this thing the VooDoo box, mostly to tease my wife) the editorial bits have been top notch! So Kudos Sir!Report
Thank you so much for keeping this little box of heaven open for us.
Well, for me.
Thank you.Report
Thanks and great work. Take one pat on the back out of petty cash.
Now get back to work.Report
Thanks for all you do here. It can’t be easy, but it is appreciated.Report
I’ll add my voice to the thank you’s.Report
Awesome. Thanks, Will!Report
I’m going to join the dog pile of thank yous–Thanks!!!Report
Does anyone have the experience that the site doesn’t come up refreshed upon opening? I have this happen at work sometimes and at home a lot. When I first click on the site, I refresh it right away; same on a comment thread. If I keep checking back on a thread to read the replies, they won’t always come up.Report
Yes, this happens more often than not to me.Report
And it’s unique to this site, right? It’s not just a quirk that I notice because I refresh a lot on this site?Report
Right: I haven’t seen it anywhere else.Report
We have to be more aggressive with caching than a lot of sites, but I’ll look into it. How long has this been going on?Report
Several months; it started roughly around the time you mentioned that you were having site upkeep issues. I assumed it was a problem everyone knew about which is why I didn’t mention it sooner.Report
Heh. That could describe multiple intervals! We had problems in August, April, and last December. Does one of those sound about right?Report
Sorry, yeah. It was definitely August. I remember first noticing it when everybody was arguing about Sarah Jeong.Report
Yes, I have to do the same thing; some times the front page won’t refresh even after I go into a specific article and come back out.Report
I can verify this also happens to meReport
All the time for me, I figured it was a browser issue. (Firefox whatever on an old system still running Win 7)
Not a big deal, I just hit “refresh” after the site loads and that seems to take care of it.Report
That’s been my experiences. Ctrl R takes care of it for me.Report
Yeah, the site is perfectly functional, and our hosts do a great job. I just wanted to raise the issue if the OT crew didn’t realize it (and also because it’s a thread on the internet, so someone’s got to complain about something).Report
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You’re reading OT at work? That’s not what they’re paying you for!
(Posted from work.)Report
Thank you, Will, for all that you do to keep this massive pile of WordPress plugins and JavaScript running.
When I open my browser’s console window and look at all of the errors and warnings that are generated when the “State of the Discussion” page loads, I am impressed by the resilience of contemporary browsers.Report
Much Obliged.
My website quirk to ask about is the name/email auto-populate… as in, it doesn’t any more.
Just me? A hint from the website nymphs?Report
This is a known issue. Could be related to the other.
I am probably not going to investigate these until we’re on our new server since any fix may not carry over.Report
Understood.Report
Almost every site on which I comment regularly does this now, I figured it was some GDPR compliance thing, somehow.
(Then again: all of those sites are WP sites so it might not be GDPR, it might be WordPress…)Report
Another thing I’d forgotten about because I’m an inveterate tinkerer. I have a piece of JavaScript that runs against almost every page I download, that replaces fonts with my own preferences and limits the number of sizes used. When those fields quit coming preloaded and the problem wasn’t resolved quickly*, I tacked some code onto the end of that script to fill them in as necessary.
* That’s not a complaint. Given the large number of pieces — plugins, JavaScript, css, etc — that go into the site, I am greatly impressed by the staff’s ability to make it run as smoothly as it does.Report
Thank you for all your work in keeping this place running Will.Report
Thank you so much Will!Report
Kudos to the chef!Report
Thank you Will and all the technical/editorial staff greatly appreciate all you do to keep this site such a wonderful place.
I hate to actually mention it as you are probably still working on things but starting yesterday? Maybe the day before the site isn’t optimized to read on phone anymore or at least not on my phone (galaxy s5 in chrome)Report
Fixed now can read on phone. Thanks!Report