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root log: June 2017 (log) by jaybonci

Hello everyone,

I wanted to give a quick technicals update for mid-June here and talk about where we are, and what is going to be going on in the next couple of months

Support info

First off, I want to state that the preferred backup support channel is email or posting in the Facebook group. If you have having an issue with your account or if the page isn't loading, then raising me via one of those channels is best. Facebook is often quickest, but I understand not wanting to make an account there if you don't already have one. Email is the second-best option with mail to accounthelp@everything2.com going right to me as well

TLS update

Looking back a bit https/TLS is going quite well. After some advice, we've stabilized how we are doing it, and it's now being handled by the Amazon load balancers, and the site remains snappy and performant. The previous implementation was killing some of our spam and DDoS prevention…

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The Refrigerator Monologues (review) by Jet-Poop

A quick bit of comic book trivia for any non-comics fans: a few years back, a comics fan (and future comics writer) named Gail Simone set up a website dedicated to "Women in Refrigerators" -- women characters in comic books who got killed off, maimed, and abused solely as a method for giving male superheroes angst and drama. Gwen Stacy, Karen Page, Alex DeWitt -- all killed off so the lead character would get a chance to grit his teeth and swear vengeance.…

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor (event) by go ahead I'll listen
Well, here we are.

On Saturday August 26, 2017, the undefeated Floyd "Money" Mayweather Jr. will come out of retirement to face MMA's biggest star, "The Notorious" Conor McGregor in a 12-round boxing match. The official announcement of the event came at about mid-day (in the United States) on Wednesday, June 14, originally reported by ESPN. The fight will take place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. It will be Mayweather's first fight at T-Mobile Arena, as the venue…
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News for Noders

Everything2 News, June 2017 by Tem42 Thu Jun 08 2017 at 0:03

SciFiQuest 3017: The Frontier that Wouldn't End... hasn't ended. Still. See the quest node for details.

June 4: Aesop's Birthday.

June 11: TerribleAspect's birthday!

June 16: Bloomsday.

June 19: Juneteenth.

June 21: The first day of summer (northern hemisphere) and winter (southern hemisphere).

June 28: Tau Day.


If you have an item for this calendar, /msg Tem42.

Everything2 News, April 2017 by Tem42 Sat Apr 01 2017 at 14:58

April 1: April Fool's Day has been cancelled. Everyone just go home.

April 6: Happy birthday, borgo!

April 7: Happy birthday, Tem42!

April 12: Yuri's Night

April 22: It's Earth Day, fellow earthlings!

April 24: Happy birthday, Rancid_Pickle!

April 24: It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown!


SciFiQuest 3017: The Frontier that Wouldn't End is coming May 1st!

If you have something to add to the monthly news, /msg Tem42.

March 2017 - TLS is Live! by jaybonci Mon Mar 27 2017 at 16:02

Hello everyone,

As you can see in your URL bar, TLS (https://) is live!

What does this mean for you?

We are on the lookout for various browser warnings. All of the themes have all been ported over. There are some http assets in some of the second-tier superdocs, but we'll clean those up as we find them. If you are seeing crazy browser warnings or can't access the site, please drop me an email. On-site messages or Github issues are also good for keeping track of broken things.

We should see an increase in search engine traffic as they tend to penalize non-https sites. This is one of the steps to continue to secure the future of the site, and I'm very pleased we're able to get it done.

Additionally, the load on the server is considerably higher. I've pushed some changes to stabilize it, but we may experience some choppiness. Please let me know if you get connection errors

A lot of really old features or features that won't handle the 301 redirect properly may break. We'll do what we can to support them, but this is one of the instances where old broken stuff might just end up staying broken.

-Jay

Everything2 News, March 2017 by Tem42 Sun Mar 12 2017 at 13:33

Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt.

March 14th: Pi day.

March 20th: The first equinox of the year.

March 23rd: Today was grundoon's birthday.

March 28th: Happy birthday lizardinlaw!

March 31st: Happy birthday mad girl's love song!


If you have an item for this calendar, /msg Tem42.

Everything2 News, February 2017 by Tem42 Wed Feb 01 2017 at 1:51

February 1st: Plagiarism Alert! A cache of copy/pasted nodes, without credit given, was discovered on Blogger. If any of your work was stolen, the DMCA request form for Blogger and other Google services is here.

February 7th: Join us for the Love on the Volcano: An E2 Romance Quest

February 15th: Happy birthday Admin to the goo!

February 18th: Happy birthday mjijm!


If you have an item for this calendar, /msg Tem42.