I’m guessing a few of you have noticed that we’re finally baaack!
Thanks to all of the hard work these paste few weeks by @darix! (He’s got a topic started where he may provide some more technical details on what happened).
The short version is, we found a bug. It took our primary hardware offline (and all the vms that we run for the websites and this forum). On a side note, we’ve been operating for around 98 months straight without a significant outage - so around 99.5% uptime? We were probably due for our first big uh-oh.
The reason for the long downtime is because I wasn’t as much help as I’d like to be getting new servers spooled up. So I see some training in my near future with darix to make sure I know better what’s going on and how to fix/break them more.
I wanted to thank everyone for being patient and for all of the kind words and support emails/tweets/etc. we got during the downtime. We really appreciate the love!
I’m really sorry for the downtime and I’ll work with darix to make sure we have a better bus factor spread for the future. Stay tuned to his topic in case he gets a moment and wants to post more details on the technical problem that wiped us off the internet for a little bit.
[edit] - I also realize that I should have done a much better job communicating to the community. This is my fault and I apologize for that. Life has a way of kicking you when you’re spinning a bunch of plates in the air. It’s not an excuse, just an observation. I will do better!
Thanks for the hard work of all the people involved!
You know it’s bad when you see 503, and take it as a sign of progress.
In the past few days, I’ve also visited the darktable community on reddit, and a few times I just wanted to write something like ‘See [some post on discuss.pixls.us]’, only to realise it was not available. That certainly shows how useful a resource and community this site has become. So, thanks again!
I have missed you so much.
You don’t know how necessary something is until you don’t have it.
I know you have never stopped being there… but now I see you again.
Greetings to all.
It was a dark moment when my browser refused to believe that pixls.us even existed any longer. But news trickled through — and here you are back again.
I want to copy/paste the words @priort used - they eloquently express what I - and I suspect many others - think: namely that I have no intention of complaining that the site was down for a while - it just made me realise how much I value and missed it. I was also feeling for you, knowing how much you were having to deal with. Congratulations on getting the site back up and working and my sincere thanks for the efforts of all those involved.
This was by far the biggest delay. I suspect darix could have had us back up and running within a day or two but safer to determine why we went down in the first place so we didn’t have to do it all again.
You don’t miss something until it’s gone.
It seems that at least one thread of mine has been lost in the “darktable” software category. Has anyone else noticed this besides me? There was a good tutorial in there from a forum member on how to correct a vignette.
We were probably due for our first big uh-oh.
I will do better!
