Forum will be down for a bit - upgrades

[ubernaut]

@LaFayette

[LaFayette]

Upgrades done.

• [routine] Forum is migrated from 4.10 to 4.15
• [major] The MongoDB database backing the forums was swapped out, migrated to a Postgres database

Earlier today I did a server restart and the forums crashed and stayed down. Mongo is not compatible with the latest OS (kernel) patch. Postgres is a very boring database, boring is good, it's solid and wont' flake out so easily due to OS intricacies. For that reason I migrated.

On postgres, it'll be easier to clean up orphaned image files, helping us out with disk space.

[LaFayette]

Still doing a couple settings tweaks, I'm expecting a couple server restarts in the next 30 minutes. Should be pretty brief, one or two minutes.

[beelee]

things are looking quite different.

[LaFayette]

@beelee That's CSS failing to load. A 'hard' refresh should work. Usually that shift or control held down while refresh

[LaFayette]

@beelee let me know if it doesn't come back looking right

[beelee]

@LaFayette

You Got Us Dialed in Dan

Well Done

[LaFayette]

Two important configs landed.

1. new users will be required to confirm an email address
2. some good anti-spam stuff. We should see drastically fewer spam registration requests.

[beelee]

@LaFayette

Right Arm

I been seeing the spinning circle a bit more frequently ever since the Big June update.

I know the other site gets hammered pretty hard sometimes. I think Djensen got some counters but sometimes they still get through.

[beelee]

@LaFayette

I have gotten a Notification saying this has been upgraded like 4 or 5 times in the last day. Is this supposed to be happening ?

[LaFayette]

@beelee not that many times, there have been a number of updates though.