I removed (experimentally) the culturalconvergencemedia.com ad. It was causing some security issues and performance issues. Let’s see if things are better for folks.
That said, Open Thread.
I’m off to an actual, physical locksmith. I can’t believe how many locksmiths have fake addresses and are mobile-only. I don’t want a bloody mobile service, I want to walk into a shop, get my work done while I oversee it, and pay them and get on with my day! For some shopping/service things, search tech is good but in this case, if it wasn’t a mobile service, it was a freaking hardware store or – get this – those kiosks at Wal-Mart!
Kvetch over, enjoy the open thread, folks.
Republished from 1:02 – sorry to bigfoot you, Doug!
Update:
The comment issue should be fixed. I’m sorry it bugged so many and I’ll try to be quicker on things like that. In my defense, there have been a number of issues relating to comments caused by WordPress having changed the way they handle them due to the new European GDPR, and so it wasn’t clear to me that saved info was being “unsaved”. Even earlier today, I thought it was a behavior-triggered bug and not a setting on the server side. You see enough flies that the next black flying insect you see, you think “fly”, even if it’s a beetle.
The site’s “been off” for a few weeks in a few ways, some more obvious to you the user (comment info save box on mobile site and then saved info going away, wacky comment number issues) and some to me, seeing the backend not work and the server crash, for example.
I’ve been trying to keep that from happening without knowing what caused it. Similarly there was a very bad few days at the end of last week and the beginning of last weekend. For many folks (including me for many times over that Thursday, Friday, and Saturday) the site was unusable (front or back end). So we dusted off the caching plugin and made things better but it had a setting that prematurely expired commenter cookies for some folks.
At this point, I think comments are ok. This does not mean that there aren’t other comment issues, so if you have them, please speak up.
At this time, the only issue I know of or relating to comments is the lack of Pie filter and Commenting help. I’ll coordinate with Majorx4 on that one soon.
That said, the ad I removed is back and that’s so it can be debugged and fixed.
I had tried using the Cloudflare CDN over the weekend, but it had some major issues and so I turned it off temporarily. I will likely turn it back on Friday to see if it behaves this time. Once fully engaged, it should greatly speed up site loading for folks while reducing server load.
And with that, I bid you all adieu – a demain!