Brooklynian

• prodigalson January 21

  there is a plan to email everyone who has logged on over the course of the last year, to tell them the site is now less buggy and that our conversations are more riveting, and informative than ever

  Looking forward to that day! :)
• ap January 21

  Thanks, brooklynian! It works now--nice to have you back in my feed.AP
• stacey January 21

  I was having the same trouble it seems as newguy. Today is the first day I am able to get to the site without any error messages or posts missing. Great job all.
• stacey January 21

  Quick question - are the ads flashing for everyone or just me? Will it always be that way and if so is there a way for me to turn the ads off or get them to stop flashing?
• joebrooklynian January 21

  @stacey no, I am just seeing flat ads for cars and office supplies. Let me know what ad is flashing and I will tell the ad service to cut it out of the rotation.
• whynot_31 January 21

  I found this video that shows where we started:http://www.wimp.com/theinternet/
• joebrooklynian January 21

  "Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee and turning on your home computer to read the day's newspaper..."
• newguy88 January 26

  Site seems much better now.
• whynot_31 January 26

  Let's now begin to put it to test, by increasing traffic.Share your favorite thread on your Facebook feed. Tell your neighbors about the site.... Mention the Brooklynian when you post on other sites.
• eastbloc January 26

  "I was told the pages will load more quickly once the web servers get more hits for the new site IP address; this causes them to not have to work as hard for it."As a site reliability engineer, I'm pretty skeptical about this theory. It doesn't actually make any sense at all. The only time more hits improves performance is if a site is so disused relative to other processes running on the host that it gets swapped out and the processes go to sleep. That does not seem to be the case here.Without delving too deeply into it, my impression is that the database used for Wordpress is at the root of the performance issues. It is possible that it is missing indexes on key tables. A database cache layer, such as memcached, can also significantly improve performance. The levels of performance we're seeing here now are so bad that it's almost certainly a simple problem.I'm happy to offer my expertise pro bono if the owners of the site are interested. PM me if so.
• eastbloc January 26

  test
• whynot_31 January 26

  The new version lacks a PM feature, but I'll put you in touch with him via Facebook.
• mugofmead111 January 27

  This site is buggier than a roach motel.I received this error message around 10:00 am when I was trying to create a post. (Of course, the post was completely lost and I have to start over.)

  Internal Server ErrorThe server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@brooklynian.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.More information about this error may be available in the server error log.Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

• admin January 27

  I'm really sorry about the lost post. We are pulling out the stops to fix the site. someone who knows something about databases and he's looking at it.
• mugofmead111 January 27

  Hi, admin!I appreciate the response. Hopefully the kinks will get worked out soon!
• newguy88 February 7

  So for the past day and a half I was unable to log in. Something about my password or username being wrong. Obviously this is not the case sine chrome logged me in automatically today. Anyone else get this? By the way it was wonderful to see the spambots posting the longest posts ever during this time.
• newguy88 February 7

  Actually here is the exact message I get when the site won't let me login. "You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page."
• admin February 7

  Thanks - I think a few people have had that errorMessage. We are moving to a new login system this mon-tues which should eliminate that error. Stay tuned.
• laura palmer February 8

  I was getting a blank site every time I tried to visit yesterday. The home page just said [bbp-topic-index] and none of the other tabs showed any discussions or forums either.
• laura palmer February 8

  
• joebrooklynian February 8

  Laura - sorry, that was just me messing with a few things on the back end.