OK I SCREWED UP

[Uncle Jesse]

Folks,

I tried a pretty major upgrade today in order to alleviate some of the slowness we have been experiencing.

To say things went south is an understatement. I got into the weeds way deeper than I wanted and had to decide between a few days of downtime or restoring to a backup from 1.5 days ago. So, I reverted to 1.5 days ago.

I deeply apologize for this. We lost a lot of posts and new users. We also lost dark mode which I will be restoring ASAP.

In 25 or so years of running HD I've never had anything like this happen and again, I apologize to you all.

I followed all the instructions and things didn't work, then they got hopelessly munged. If and when I try this upgrade again I will be taking extra precautions.

Sorry again. Really. I apologize.

[Uncle Jesse]

Dark Mode has been restored. Little consolation, I know.

[Twisted Brick]

Just a minor hiccup, Uncle Jesse. All is good.

[Yummyrum]

Whats 1.5 days out if 25 years .
All good .
Possibly were a few posts in the last 24hours that some folk might have a rethink about anyway .

[NZChris]

LOL. That was my first thought, Yummy.

[Barefoot Bob]

I'm a newbie that posts dumb stuff. Thank you for destroying the evidence

[NormandieStill]

Whats 1.5 days out if 25 years .
All good .
Possibly were a few posts in the last 24hours that some folk might have a rethink about anyway .

Perhaps we should make this a regular thing.

Ok guys. You're all being a bit dickish at the minute so we're going back to yesterday afternoon when everyone was in a better mood!"

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[CoogeeBoy]

Don't worry about it yummy, I made a mistake once.

I thought I was wrong but I made a mistake, I was actually right!

[EricTheRed]

Well - I wouldn't worry about it!
I wondered why i had to login again, and then some posts i had already read were marked as unread - puzzling

But you answered the unasked question and now i know why!

Thanks for all you efforts - much much appreciated!

[EricTheRed]

Whats 1.5 days out if 25 years .
All good .
Possibly were a few posts in the last 24hours that some folk might have a rethink about anyway .

Perhaps we should make this a regular thing.

Ok guys. You're all being a bit dickish at the minute so we're going back to yesterday afternoon when everyone was in a better mood!"

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Hilarious!

[Saltbush Bill]

No need for apologies.........cant expect perfection 100% of the time....we all have bad days.....we all have things go wrong.

[Expat]

Nothing but Thanks for all your hard work, apologies not required.

[StillerBoy]

I followed all the instructions and things didn't work, then they got hopelessly munged. If and when I try this upgrade again I will be taking extra precautions.

It started out with good intention.. the upgrade provide an experience which in turn provided a result.. it may not have been the result expected but the never the less a result.. the result provide wisdom in that attention to detail is important..

Best wishes on the next attempt.. and thank you for the forum..

Mars

[Ben]

I know I posted something novel and unforgettable. I just don't remember what it was.

I appreciate your candor.

[tiramisu]

Nothing to be sorry for as far as I am concerned.
This is the singularly best resource for home distillers on the planet.
That you provide this for us is remarkable and widely appreciated.

The nice thing about this hobby is that you put it down for a while and you pick it up again a while later
sometimes weeks, sometimes months.... In all that time this resource has continued answering questions
on absolutely everything anyone could ever want to know.

.... Just taking a moment to say thanks.

[cob]

Dark Mode has been restored. Little consolation, I know.

UJ; If you remember things as well as I do you would never know the difference.

[shadylane]

To say things went south is an understatement. I got into the weeds way deeper than I wanted and had to decide between a few days of downtime or restoring to a backup from 1.5 days ago. So, I reverted to 1.5 days ago.

Sorry again. Really. I apologize.

Thank heavens that's all it was.
I thought I was drinking too much and had a 36 hour black out.

[Stonecutter]

Well this makes sense now! As was said above, was nothing more than a minor bump in the road. I appreciate all your hard work Uncle thanks for the clarification and keeping the site up and running.

Possibly were a few posts in the last 24hours that some folk might have a rethink about anyway .

I was up really late last night drinking and posting so when I woke up this morning I thought I’d been blocked or something
I even PM Tater to ask if I was being punished

[bilgriss]

I went to a major league baseball game yesterday. Home team lost. Crashed the internet, HD board, all sorts of random stuff. The force is strong with this one.

UJ, we will recover. As an I.T. guy who has made impactful mistakes before, I promise to cut you a TON of slack.

[drmiller100]

I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!!
Lol!!!

Next time I'm rich (non negative bank balance) I need to donate some money.

Thank you for this great site.

[The Baker]

Nothing but Thanks for all your hard work, apologies not required.

Me too.

Geoff

[Renhoekk]

Ahhh the penny drops. As a noob I thought I’d done something weird and was screwing up my posts

No worries Uncle Jesse, it’s great that we have this forum and 1 day of glitching is nothing

[bilgriss]

There have been a number of availability drops recently - almost certainly not related to anyone's screwups - and I've been noticing a lag on page loads. This acts like either a database table with a dropped index, or a memory bleed that is causing the cache to fill and not be used.

Also, I noticed the site certificate was updated and is now good into January. Cool.

[Dutch41]

UJ, no worries my friend. I'm glad everything is back to normal though I was worried for a few days and didn't know what the heck happened.

[Mr_Beer]

Certainly no need to apologize, stuff happens to the best prepared.

All of your work over the past decades says it all.

[LordL]

Whats 1.5 days out if 25 years .
All good .
Possibly were a few posts in the last 24hours that some folk might have a rethink about anyway .

It's like giving folks a second chance to behave! Haha, I like it!

[6 Row Joe]

Folks,

I tried a pretty major upgrade today in order to alleviate some of the slowness we have been experiencing.

To say things went south is an understatement. I got into the weeds way deeper than I wanted and had to decide between a few days of downtime or restoring to a backup from 1.5 days ago. So, I reverted to 1.5 days ago.

I deeply apologize for this. We lost a lot of posts and new users. We also lost dark mode which I will be restoring ASAP.

In 25 or so years of running HD I've never had anything like this happen and again, I apologize to you all.

I followed all the instructions and things didn't work, then they got hopelessly munged. If and when I try this upgrade again I will be taking extra precautions.

Sorry again. Really. I apologize.

Stuff happens, no apology necessary..websites and software updates can be a turd sometimes. We're good here.