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Just a quick apology for being down – I have been away for a couple days without Internet access. Everything is back and running.

Jon Paul

Everything went ok (So Far so Good)! I hope no-one got lost on the way or had any posts go missing! Email me directly jpjanze at gmail if anything is amiss and I will look into it right away!

Cheers!

Jon Paul

 

Hello all, my apologies for the server errors that apparently had part15.us unavailable for many of you today. I was unaware the site was having difficulty until this evening and even now, I am not completely certain that the problem has been fixed. I will monitor closely, but it you are experiencing intermittend issues, be sure to clear your browser cache and/or try browsing in private or incognito mode.

 

Thanks for your patience!

Jon Paul

Hello Part15ers! Just a quick note to let everyone know that we are being hit by a very large increase in spam as of late and that we are doing our best to keep it under control and add new filters and systems to block it entirely. Remember to thank your moderators – they are doing a really great job cleaning it up as quickly as they can. If you see an obvious spam post hang around for a few days, don’t worry, I have asked every now and then to leave a post up so we can analyze it in greater detail before deleting.

Thanks everyone for your patience!

Jon Paul

Hi Everyone, just a quick note to let you know that the server suffered a huge glitch last night – still trying to get a straight answer on exactly what the cause was – and we were down for about 3 hours. Not only that, some data was corrupted and I had to roll back to June 1 at 6pm so we lost an entire days worth of posts/comments.

First my apologies to anyone that was trying to login and to those whose posts are now gone – the host is a good web host and is paid a lot to do a better job than this so I will be looking into it in great detail.

Second, let me know if you notice anything else that is not quite right so I can make sure everything is working properly now.

regards,

Jon Paul

Hi Everyone, just a quick note to let you all know that I have been hard at work with a few updates for part15.us and we will be rolling them out over the next few days.

The first of which is a new look and new logo! (see screenshot below to get an idea – I hope you like it!) It will take a couple days after rolling it out for things to settle down (it will take some tweaking).

I am letting everyone know ahead of time, because some of the things you use everyday here may move.

1. login / logout will likely end up at the top right of the screen
2. navigation may end up on the right hand side of the screen

I say ‘may’ because I won’t know for certain until it rolls out and see how easily the changes integrate.

The other thing you will notice with the update is that the site should be fully responsive and have excellent view characteristics from any browser or device. Now – keep in mind that just like the infrastructure update, their may be some gotchas, but I am hoping that they will be negligible this time!

Oh, one more thing, we should not run into the system outages anymore that have cropped up over the last week or two. I now know that they were innocent outages and caused by regular old server resource limits which has been rectified.

Cheers! Jon Paul