Fern Outage

[Kirwan]

I think there is a cert issue left to go on that side of things.

We are 80% migrated to a new beefy server, last big hurdle is the DB migration.

[Duluth]

@booboo said in Fern Outage:

BTW the link www.silverfern.rugby is having a meltdown on my phone.

Any settings I'm missing?

I just changed some settings related to the certificate. That might fix it.. it will take a while to propagate though

[Duluth]

The bulk email worked well but a lot of accounts (more recent ones) didn't have an email associated with it

Please pass around the updated url to any TSFers you know who don't turn up in the next few days

For example Mauss didn't have an email in his account. Same with a lot of the newer Otago/Highlanders posters

[Mauss]

@Duluth said in Fern Outage:

For example Mauss didn't have an email in his account.

No worries, I was frantically searching for updates either way. I'm just glad it wasn't my fault for using all of these GIFs.

[canefan]

Fuck me, getting that email was like coming up for air!

[NTA]

Did you try reversing polarities?

[gt12]

@NTA said in TSF Update - Politics forum gone, New server soon:

Did you try reversing polarities?

[nzzp]

@Kirwan said in Fern Outage:

And we won’t bulk email like that again, don’t want abuse people’s emails.

Advising people of a new domain name is the exact opposite of abuse. It's what it's for

Disclaimer: not a boomer

[canefan]

@NTA said in Fern Outage:

Did you try reversing polarities?

[Cyclops]

Yeah no issues with the bulk mail out given the circumstances. I assume 'we won't don't this again' has an unspoken 'unless we really have to'.

Didn't the forums also use to use someone's personal domain before the switch to forums.thesilverfern.com? So this makes it the third domain that I've used to get here.

[Duluth]

@Cyclops said in Fern Outage:

Didn't the forums also use to use someone's personal domain

Yeah that was @Kirwan 's

I think it ran like that for about 3 years. It was finally fixed in late 2016

[Kirwan]

Yeah, it used to run off my own server. That was before cloud really took off, the stuff you can build these days is nuts.

[canefan]

Will the site eventually go back to the old web address?

[Duluth]

@canefan

The old address will redirect here.. eventually

But this is the url from now on

[canefan]

So the stragglers will eventually find their way back....

[Duluth]

@canefan said in Fern Outage:

So the stragglers will eventually find their way back....

Yeah

Loads of people would not get the email or it will go to spam. For them they'll get here by

• The url being passed around (please keep passing it around)
• Google search
• Eventually we'll unlock the account and get the old url back and that will redirect

We don't have a time frame on unlocking the account

Google search will help. We are indexed again and are appearing on searches for 'silverfern forum' etc (tested in incognito mode)
There's things we can do to improve the chances of finding us via google. Still working on that

[Virgil]

@Duluth said in Fern Outage:

@canefan said in Fern Outage:

So the stragglers will eventually find their way back....

Yeah

Loads of people would not get the email or it will go to spam. For them they'll get here by

• The url being passed around (please keep passing it around)
• Google search
• Eventually we'll unlock the account and get the old url back and that will redirect

We don't have a time frame on unlocking the account

Google search will help. We are indexed again and are appearing on searches for 'silverfern forum' etc (tested in incognito mode)
There's things we can do to improve the chances of finding us via google. Still working on that

a search for silverfern forum comes up with the new page as first result for me.
would the more searches taking place help direct more results here?

Googles AI answer makes the fern sound very civilized and polite...
The "Silverfern Forum" refers to the discussion forum on the Silver Fernes website. It's a place for users to engage in discussions, ask questions, and participate in general conversation. The forum is organized into sections like "General Discussion" and "Questions & Answers"

[frugby]

Pleased everything is back up and running… I thought New Zealand Rugby had had the page taken down for the leaked lineups!

[Duluth]

Number of people logged in is recovering

[bayimports]

i swear by the amount of BS posted most were bots, probably why new server so responsive