Server Systems Upgrade Today

February 18, 2015

Dearest Members and Visitors of the little Fountain Pen Nut house on the digital prairie,

Just in case you have been wondering:

We have been offline for about half an hour, to make backups of FPN, and perform a few server side upgrades and security enhancements.

We now are running the latest stable versions of Apache (http-server), PHP (the software environment on which our board runs), and MySQL (our database).

Warm regards, Wim

On behalf of the FPN Admin Team

February 18, 2015

I was wondering about this. I woke up, went to check the My Content section, and thought my Internet was down until I poked Facebook a few minutes later. Glad to see the upgrade happen.

PS: Any chance of bringing "My Content" to the Mobile version of the site? Notifications are one thing but it's irritating to go to the full site with a three-generations-old iPhone to see the content I've started or posted in but haven't specifically followed.

February 18, 2015

I am afraid that short of rewriting the entire theme and its accompanying codebase from scratch, there is nothing we can do about the mobile version. It really is the skin/theme limiting these possibilities.

We tried a few other options already, but those aren't satisfactory either, as those were rather buggy, and affected the entire site.

The new board software will be a lot better from this POV, as it will just scale and rearrange stuff, but that is probably not due for another 6 to 12 months, with all the extras we run on our site here .

HTH, warm regards, Wim

February 18, 2015

I was a little startled this morning when I suddenly couldn't post and got this weird popup message. Very relieved to find out that there was just maintenance happening.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

February 18, 2015

It always is a bit of a problem: as a volunteer team we cannot always do things at a specific time, or announce things, amongst other because of not always being able to things at a specific time. As a result we often end up checking how many people are online, and if there aren't too many, just make a decision there and then. This morning there were about 1500-1600 people online, which these days is not a lot , so we quickly went for it.

We knew it wouldn't take very long, as we could do part of it while being online .

Warm regards, Wim

February 18, 2015

PS: Any chance of bringing "My Content" to the Mobile version of the site? Notifications are one thing but it's irritating to go to the full site with a three-generations-old iPhone to see the content I've started or posted in but haven't specifically followed.

I think if you go to the 'More' button in the mobile version you can select 'Items I participated in' which works the same as 'My Content'. Unless I am misunderstanding what you mean.

Dom