Maintenance/Plug-in From Hell
Since last Thursday, after one of our plug-ins was updated, all notifications stopped. Subscribers weren’t getting emails, and posts weren’t being sent to Twitter or Tumblr.
Nothing. Natta. Zippo.
I started personally posting it to Twitter & Tumblr hoping that would help, while researching and waiting to see what the problem was. Come to find out the Developers of that plug-in were on vacation and wasn’t back until this Monday.
So I waited.
Waited.
*checks watch*
Posts still not going through, start noticing the message boards going crazy with the same problem. Finally get enough info to send it to the developers directly.
So I waited.
Waited.
*checks watch*
Yeah that kinda week.
Anyway, long story short (too late) they finally got back to me and said oh it’s because the plug-in is timing out. It times out if your website doesn’t respond in 5 seconds, you need to talk to your hosting company as it takes 20 seconds for your site to come up.
Me: Bullshit, my hosting server has always been slow it wasn’t until you updated this shit started happening. And points to message boards I’m not the only one … you upgraded when didn’t really need to and broke something and instead of rolling it back or finding a solution you’re blaming ‘internet speed’ … yeah fuck you.
So I did what I normally do figure this out on my own. In the end I cleared at Cache’s, got rid of the Forums … no one was using it .. and if you’re sitting there going ‘what forums?’ my point was made! Then … wait for it. I deactivated the plug-in counted to ten and plugged back in. I’m not kidding.
It worked.
Well I’m hoping it truly worked we’ll see if this post gets sent out publicly. Sends quick prayer to St. Isadore of Seville! Note if you do get this via email, click via tumblr or twitter … leave a reply just so I know it’s working again.
A Few Things:
The ability to Like a post has been taken off, cause it doesn’t want to play with others.
As stated the Forums are gone. I’m hoping we can get more discussions going in the RP and Coffee House Fridays.
What You’ve Missed:
As no one was getting emails and it wasn’t being publicized here’s a few highlights of Posts you may have missed:
Throwback Thursday: Demons & Angels by Timothy Quinn
Due to the recent Sylum headcanon changes concerning Sam Winchester now being Theo … no longer Meridia … both these stories needed to be looked at. They were already on the ‘need to look at’ list considering changes in Canon from the 10th Anniversary Clan War Edition.
Secondary Note: Roads Untraveled is being worked on at the moment
You get to choose one scene from the Sylum Universe to be filmed.
Which scene would you choose?
If you’re working on a story or artwork let me know how it’s going!!
Throwback Thursday: The Black Queen by Gil Grissom
Hotchner and his team go to Seattle to recruit a hacker and Aaron gets far more than he bargained for.
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Please for the love of my sanity – let this work!
YEP! You are live!
WOOHOO!!!!
*collapses*
Dear BJ,
I got the info to this post through Twitter Sylum Clan. Wish you luck that all problems are now solved.
Thank You!!
*does small happy dance*
I got the test & of course, this one.
It seems to have worked and hopefully will continue to do so *crosses fingers*
Email is working 🙂
email is working also
Well, I actually DID reveive your e-mail, so I think it’s going … or running? 😉 Good luck!
It worked for me! Lovely to see this again
~J
It’s working! Wow, I thought it was me.
I received your emails also. *pats shoulder and hands over a glass of ‘iced tea’*
yep email is working for now. Till they make another pointless update.
email is working.
Yay it worked lol.
Afternoon General. Are you rewriting Clan War 10th Anniversary Edition to remove the story line of Greg being Theo?.
We appreciate the fact that after all the time and effort you put in creating this universe, you take more time to go back and redo the stories to fit the new canon, so thank you for the time you take from RL to do this.
We started the 10th Anniversary to clean it up to fit more of the canon for later series and stories. It actually started with redoing Annihilation … then realized we had to go back to Clan War. We saw the opportunity to add more information that we knew into the stories. When we decided to remove Greg as Theo we took all reference out in Clan War, and then started making adjustments in other side stories: Like the CSI: Anthology, Demons & Angels, and now Roads Untraveled. Once Clan War done and we attack Annihilation everything will get adjusted as we go.
You edited the posted chapters of Clan War? Working on Roads Untraveled?
The chapters that have been finished and posted (so far) have been edited and uploaded to the Sylum Archive: http://www.sylumclan.com/SylumManor/ManorArchive/viewstory.php?sid=408&index=1 – We’re still working on the rest of the Arc.
Due to the changes made with the new head canon – we took a break from 10th Anniversary Clan War and focused first on Demons & Angels, and now working on Roads Untraveled. When we’re finished with Roads – we’ll do a post like we did for Demons & Angels. Then refocus back on finishing 10th Anniversary Clan War Arc.