by Dave Russo on January 31, 2012
Today, one of our technical consultants accidently deleted a folder that should not have been deleted. As a result, some of our applications lost data that was added between Sat Jan 28th at 4AM to Tues Jan 31 at about 12:00 noon.
The Haiku Now! Contest entries are not affected by this data loss.
However, the blog and the forums were affected. Updates before Sat Jan 28th at 4AM are still there in the affected applications. Updates after Tues Jan 31 at 12:00 noon are still there. But updates between these two end points are lost.
I’m sorry for this inconvenience.
by Dave Russo on July 2, 2010
I changed the blog so that comments are sorted from newest to oldest, since people typically want to see what’s been said recently. Let’s try this for a while.
by Dave Russo on July 1, 2010
Welcome back!
Thanks for your patience this week while we upgraded the server that supports our site. Reading and navigating our site—especially our blog—should be quicker and smoother for most of you. The new server should provide a stable platform on which we can grow and improve the site in the coming months.
Why did we need a faster server?
Mainly because blog software doesn’t handle a lot of long comments very well.
That’s why, in the past, you might have gotten a blank page when you tried to display a page of comments. The database query timed out before all of the text could be displayed. And I’m pretty sure that long comments are one reason why the links to comments (under the “Recent Comments” and “Comments on Posts” headings) still don’t work on our production site—even with the new server. (These links work fine on our test site, where most comments are short.)
In the coming months, we’ll slowly and deliberately try out various ways to support and broaden the lively discussions that have become so typical on our blog. We’ll rely on your patience and your good grace in the future as much as we have in the past.
Thanks again to our loyal and articulate readers!
by Dave Russo on June 5, 2010
Folks,
We’re going back to our old comment management system. The new system worked well for me when I tested it, but it caused problems for a significant number of you, so we won’t be using that system. Things should be back to the way they were before we made the switch. If you have any difficulties, please use the Contact page to let us know.
Sorry for the confusion.
Note: We’ve had a Reply button next each comment for a long time. At least I see one in IE8. If you reply to a comment, it is not indented under that comment, but it does appear under that comment and not at the end of the comment list.
