Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
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Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
We'll be taking the forum down for extended downtime this weekend to perform db maintenance and we'll be upgrading the forum to phpBB 3.2.
Since the new board version will invalidate all themes, the custom themes available on the forum right now will be lost -- we'll work on re-implementing at least a dark theme after the upgrade but it may take a little time.
Planned downtime: Fri Dec 22nd 18:00 UTC to Sat Dec 23rd ??:??
Since the new board version will invalidate all themes, the custom themes available on the forum right now will be lost -- we'll work on re-implementing at least a dark theme after the upgrade but it may take a little time.
Planned downtime: Fri Dec 22nd 18:00 UTC to Sat Dec 23rd ??:??
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Re: Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
Maintenance has been completed -- we decided to stay with 3.1 after all since the upgrade proved to break way too much functionality we rely on for smooth operation of the forum.
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Re: Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
Could you please check if everything is ok with email notifications?
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Re: Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
Nothing has changed in that respect.JustOff wrote:Could you please check if everything is ok with email notifications?
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Re: Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
That's weird, I have not received a single email notification since yesterday
Re: Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
Moonchild wrote:Maintenance has been completed -- we decided to stay with 3.1 after all since the upgrade proved to break way too much functionality we rely on for smooth operation of the forum.
What are you guys using that would break 3.2? I have at least 25 extensions and I was able to use 3.2. Although, I made tests in Xampp prior to migrating and had to update several extensions.
What kind of database maintenance do you have to do?
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Re: Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
That's probably because the forum has been unavailable?JustOff wrote:That's weird, I have not received a single email notification since yesterday
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Re: Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
I don't know how you feel about it, but I actually find that to be good news! Thanks for letting us know.Moonchild wrote:Maintenance has been completed -- we decided to stay with 3.1 after all since the upgrade proved to break way too much functionality we rely on for smooth operation of the forum.
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Re: Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
Today I received two new PMs and I also subscribed to this topic, but there were no email notifications at all. Am I the only one who has this problem now?Moonchild wrote:That's probably because the forum has been unavailable?JustOff wrote:That's weird, I have not received a single email notification since yesterday
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Re: Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
I've also not been receiving emails as of late.
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Re: Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
I just checked and verified that e-mail delivery is being made from the forum to our mail server, so I'm not sure what could be wrong.
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"Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past; wisdom is of the future." -- Native American proverb
"Linux makes everything difficult." -- Lyceus Anubite
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Re: Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
OK, so there is a problem: for some reason the notification e-mails are being queued up, but not being sent. Mails have been queued since Dec 21st which is BEFORE the downtime. I'm not sure what's going on but I'm investigating.
"Sometimes, the best way to get what you want is to be a good person." -- Louis Rossmann
"Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past; wisdom is of the future." -- Native American proverb
"Linux makes everything difficult." -- Lyceus Anubite
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"Linux makes everything difficult." -- Lyceus Anubite
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Re: Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
Yeap that's the date i keep getting email notifications constantly, hope you can sort it outMoonchild wrote:OK, so there is a problem: for some reason the notification e-mails are being queued up, but not being sent. Mails have been queued since Dec 21st which is BEFORE the downtime. I'm not sure what's going on but I'm investigating.
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Re: Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
wait, so.. the queue keeps trying to send the first batch?
I'll purge all queued notifications then, see if that helps.
I'll purge all queued notifications then, see if that helps.
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"Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past; wisdom is of the future." -- Native American proverb
"Linux makes everything difficult." -- Lyceus Anubite
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Re: Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
So far so good, ill drop back here to report, but for a whole day i did not get anymore emails.Moonchild wrote:wait, so.. the queue keeps trying to send the first batch?
I'll purge all queued notifications then, see if that helps.
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Re: Planned downtime, forum upgrade.
I did a quick test and it seems to work now; I've also changed some settings to try and avoid the obviously-broken feature. I think it broke because we actually had more outbound notifications than the batch threshold (which is what this queueing system is actually supposed to be FOR). Since we have our own mail server, batch size doesn't matter.
"Sometimes, the best way to get what you want is to be a good person." -- Louis Rossmann
"Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past; wisdom is of the future." -- Native American proverb
"Linux makes everything difficult." -- Lyceus Anubite
"Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past; wisdom is of the future." -- Native American proverb
"Linux makes everything difficult." -- Lyceus Anubite