So, we had a bit of an issue this morning with our site having resource overruns. Usually when this happens, I contact our webhost and they reset the site1. Except that after they did it we got a series of errors and the site wouldn’t load on the backend, and then after they tried to fix that it stopped working on the front-end too.
The long and short of it is that we had to ditch the theme we used, which necessitated a spot redesign. And here we are. We’re still having some resource overrun problems but I don’t want them to reset the site unless we absolutely have to. At this point all I can do is hope that it passes. I will be doing some troubleshooting, but I’m not highly optimistic. If I do have to get them to reset the site, it could crash everything all over again and we may revert back to the previous site design, may use this one, or I may have to do something else (I am trying to figure that out.
Our contract with our current webhost ends in November.
Thank you for your presence and your patience.
So, if anyone notices any weirdness with vertical spacing in titles or picture captions, or quotation blocks looking funny, tell me in a response to this comment. I have no idea how the weird little tweaks I’ve made will hold up.Report
This sounds really crazy and frustrating. Thanks for doing all the work to keep this site running.Report
I’ll 2nd that.Report
I’ll 3rd it. You folks are the bomb.Report
Dear editor:
The election returns did not go as I wished they had. Please correct this.
P.S. I am not a crank.Report
I like the tomato soup red. It’s clearer to my aging eyes.Report
I know the new look is an artifact of all the technical problems, but I actually like it, too. One reason is that, being now in mid-middle age, the sharper contrasts make things easier to read.
ETA: Er…I should say “being that I’m now mid-middle age.” I have no idea if the sharper contrasts are middle aged or not.Report
But is there a sharp contrast between middle age and mid-middle age? I like to think I’m no further along than that, but (a) AARP has my address, and (b) I like the website’s sharper contrasts.Report
Now that I am (mostly) retired and receiving both Social Security and Medicare, I have had to give up on any sort of middle-aged variation. If people ask about my stage of life, I tell them I am “aging gracefully”.Report
Anyone else having issues with the main page going to an archived site? Not sure if it’s due to maintenance or something on my side.
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Try using a different browser.
There was a glitch that sent people to the NaPP archives. It was fixed pretty quickly but some caching issues remain.Report
Got it worked out, thank you (and thanks to everyone involved in running the site).Report