Uprades!
It's upgrade time, mutants, which means that the system won't be publishing new comments for at least a few hours. Note that these are unsexy upgrades: if nothing outwardly changes, that means it worked!
In the meantime, here's an embedded comment thread from Disqus at the front page.




Anonymous Anonymous
#1 – 6:39 AM April 5, 2009
Just testin' the anon comments
Rob Beschizza
#2 – 7:01 AM April 5, 2009
Let's try commenting here.
therevengor
#3 – 8:22 AM April 5, 2009
I don't think its working...
Rob Beschizza
#4 – 9:59 AM April 5, 2009
Anonymously now, not previewed
Anonymous Anonymous
#5 – 12:52 PM April 5, 2009
Wat?
Don't get the recaptcha on the first anonymous comment - you have to 'preview' it first. Is that by design?
Anonymous Anonymous
#6 – 12:53 PM April 5, 2009
Should've been titled Upgrayedd, for a double dose of pimping.
grimc
#7 – 12:56 PM April 5, 2009
Bug reports here?
The SIGN IN button is hinky. Wasn't clickable as a graphic; had to refresh Firefox a couple times until SIGN IN was just a text link, then I could click it and log on.
Also, the spamblocker told me to type the two words but showed three.
Dean Putney
#8 – 2:11 PM April 5, 2009
Ahem. Where, pray tell, is the News Faucet?
nixiebunny
#9 – 3:16 PM April 5, 2009
I had the same problem signing in - Firefox took a couple refreshes to show it. Before it appeared, it was a 1/4" square yellow box.
Anonymous Anonymous
#10 – 3:45 PM April 5, 2009
I like the "uprades" title... Now that's progress.
Shane
#11 – 4:00 PM April 5, 2009
FYI, the sign in doesn't show on BB proper. I could get to it from the preview page of the comments of one of the threads, but then it gave me an access-denied-to-the-server message.
Shane
#12 – 4:01 PM April 5, 2009
ah... apparently, being logged in here isn't translating back to the BB proper, so no comments for me there, either logged in or anonymously.
Anonymous Anonymous
#13 – 5:37 PM April 5, 2009
Maybe the upgrade can include a spellcheck or lazy editor fix? Just a thought...
icky2000
#14 – 7:25 PM April 5, 2009
All of these comments remind me of the morning-after emails I get from my boss after a major system upgrade. I've been in IT for 15 years but still find major changes relatively stressful because I want them to go really well. Seems like things are mostly working, Rob, I hope your weekend wasn't too crazy!
Rob Beschizza
#15 – 7:32 PM April 5, 2009
Clearing cookies and cache should fix log-in issues.
strider_mt2k
#16 – 4:54 AM April 6, 2009
I know they're working on it because someone has been in the sub-basement banging on the pipes for most of yesterday afternoon.
devophill
#17 – 5:07 AM April 6, 2009
Is that why the faucet is missing? Was it clogged?
Anonymous Anonymous
#18 – 9:29 AM April 6, 2009
Upraded yet?
Enochrewt
#19 – 8:02 PM April 6, 2009
I'm going to cross reference my problem with posting here just in case.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/04/upgrades.html#comment-457946
Obviously, I don't have a problem posting, so it's no skin off of my teeth. And just to note, I did clear the BB cookie.
BCJ
#20 – 6:51 AM April 7, 2009
I'm posting a weird non-error error here, as this seems to be the best place to list it.
I signed in on BoingBoing, and previewed a comment. At this point it listed me as an ANONYMOUS poster and made me do the recaptcha. When the comment posted, it was correctly listed as BCJ, not ANONYMOUS. I also had to relog in on BBG when I switched over (though all it required in both cases was pressing "sign in." I didn't need to give my username and password). I am one of those rebels who has yet to clear his cookies, so I am ready to chock it up to being a bad user.
Overall, the site seems to be running fine. So good work Rob (as usual).
BCJ
#21 – 7:07 AM April 7, 2009
3 More things:
1 is there a support@boingboing I should send this kind of message too instead of posting in this thread?
2 When I try and upload a profile pic, I get this error:
Error writing upload to '/var/www/boing-cgi/mt/mt-static/support/uploads/pic.jpg': Opening local file '/var/www/boing-cgi/mt/mt-static/support/uploads/pic.jpg' failed: No such file or directory
3 In the user profile
a) "website" and "website url" are both fields, what is the difference?
b) I had never really looked at the profile section before, maybe this has alway been there, but what are these fields for:
profile_pending_password
passwordverificationcode
password_reset_code
email_verification_code
Bevin
#22 – 10:09 AM April 10, 2009
Just a test. Cleared my cookies. My 9-year-old thinks that sounds like barf.
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