Subtle changes, bugs and feedback

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I swear I tried this the other day and it didn't work.

Still more 504s than an African taxi rank.

Yeah, we're aware of this and are monitoring it.

But... we haven't changed anything that should impact this, which makes it extremely hard to debug as there isn't an obvious "rollback that change and it will be fixed".

We're also hazy on precisely when it started, contender dates are the beginning of the month, around the 15th Sept, and around 11pm on the 20th Sept. Those are the points on the graphs we have that start to show various changes in performance, though we do not know which changes in performance relate to 504 errors.

The most likely start of the issue is the 11pm on the 20th September observed change. Though no code was modified or changed around that time, which is why we have a problem determining root cause.

High number of traffic?

The start of the month, the 15th, and the 20th are all around the times that the sleb photo leaks have happened. Someone's hosting naughty pictures on cloudfare servers and that's sucking up all the bandwidth, I'd guess.

Nah, this is definitely related to our servers.

That last event, on the 20th... since then the Django instance (runs the frontend) has been maxing out it's RAM.

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Also, if you @ mention yourself, should it appear in your following feed?

I think that is the case for Microcosm financial backers (forget the name for that group). Otherwise, it's been stated that changing your name frees up the old one. No log of your old names is kept.

Bikeradar attack?

I had trouble just after the change,can't remember what I was using. But last time I changed it I used the laptop and it worked fine.
Still can't animate my avatar though.

Yes, as you were either an investor or donor during the fundraising for Microcosm.

Spotted thread was timing out for me at 9:04 this morning, if I clicked on the main link to it from the Following page. It did slowly shift from being

128788/newest/

to

128778/?offset=68050#comment11847644

but then eventually timed out. While it was churning, I opened another tab by clicking on the link that went to the start of the Spotted thread, which took me straight there with no problem. With other timing out threads, I've also been able to get to them by going to my profile and clicking on a link to one of my posts in the thread. I think all my time-outs have been ones to conversations/######/newest/ links.

will @apollo still be mine for future use?

Create a new user with the name @apollo to park it until you want it back.

The risk you face is that between the time it takes to change from @apollo to a new name, and a new user to @apollo, someone else might nab @apollo.

change it to @apolloxl

You do all know that if a page is going slow... just press escape and hit the URL again.

The slowdown is only affecting some requests, but you can force the page if you think it's happening to your request.

Such slow, many 504, very pining for old forum :(

We are debugging at the moment, we will fix it.

Presently looking at such delights as: http://www.toofishes.net/blog/using-guppy-debug-django-memory-leaks/

Looks fun!

"Django performance", lol

Racist.

Please merge the phone picture thread with the "regular" digital photography thread.
Merged content will not get in it's way, but complement another.

I'd rather they weren't merged. They've been running separately and quite happily for a long time.
It's a funny request coming from someone who started a cats thread when there was already one for pets. Could we merge those? How would we decide? A vote of all the people who post in there? Or of the entire forum? Actually, given what the cats thread is like we should probably ask the cats, after all, they are just little, furry, humans aren't they?