The disk-space problem keeps cropping up every now and then, I still need to do something about that. I've also cleared out the last batch of spambots and switched the forums to Google's recaptcha v3, which -- might perform better? I seem to recall v2 mostly didn't help, even back when I set this it...

Unscheduled downtime today, not sure for how long, probably a few days at most. The problem seems to have been the logs growing to several gigabytes, exhausting the server partition the web-facing containers are installed in. We're back to normal now that I've cleared them out, I'll have to install ...

That's two weeks' uninterrupted uptime, I'm declaring the board formally re-opened. I should also report that we may have had a data breach. Specifically, there was a backup dated early 2021 sitting around in an exposed directory, due to ( say the line, Bart ) faulty web server configuration. My mis...

Apparently not safe enough, since I only got started on this today, with an hour left on the downtime clock. An hour and three quarters later, I believe things are up and running like they should. Migration itself was fairly routine, being mostly the same steps as last time, and I've run rudimentary...

Blocking out two three-hour segments this weekend (2024-03-23 and 2024-03-24, both 18:00-21:00 UTC) for migration take 2, to be on the safe side.

Hey, you know what? The old hosting setup lasted for four years, it can last another two weeks. I'm reasonably confident that the new hosting setup is stable, now that the limited-RAM issue has been identified and (provisionally) addressed, but I was probably going to roll the forum back to its fres...

Update on that. Email and the like is done and tested, so now comes the process of migration. The domain names ( https://www.pastelland.net , https://www.pastelland.com ) still refer to the old server at the time of writing. In the coming days I'll point them at the new server, a tiny but sufficient...

Some news on that. I've got new hosting mostly set up, I just need to test everything and figure out email, so people will still be able to sign up. Speaking of email, it turns out that, since I first set up our current hosting solution, the screws have tightened further on self-hosted email. Gmail ...

Seems we had a spambot wave over the past few days. Always fun to have to do something urgently for once. Most accounts and their posts should be pruned, and I've rotated the registration questions. I should probably also look into another version update and moving to more stable hosting, but no new...

Search should be properly operational again. This one's a bit embarrassing. I appear to have at some point misunderstood how building the search index worked, thinking it could run in the background when, as it turns out, you have to keep the browser window open. (Which I guess makes sense, since it...