Planned Server Downtime / Software Upgrade Completed

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Just wanted to let people know that there will be some scheduled website downtime this week as we cut over to a new server with the latest software on it.

So, on Wednesday Nov 4th, and Thursday, November 5th the site will be put into “Read-only” mode starting around 6am in the morning. When we’re finished the work, we’ll remove the “read-only” mode and put it into live mode.

On the new software, things will look a little bit different (the “Latest” column on the home page will be on the left hand side of the screen now, instead of the right side) - but most things will be very similar. We’ll be on the latest version of software, and I’m also working at integrating new features like automatic AI translation for our many foreign visitors, etc.

I’ll announce again once we nail down the exact day / time of the upgrade.

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Thanks for all that you do. I am grateful every day.

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Yes indeed thank you for your efforts in setting this up. In terms of brand identity I would stick with the name you are using.

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the very convenient new interface)
but is there any way to hide the left panel?

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Yes - click on the three horizontal bars in the upper left corner of the screen.

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We are live again! As @egorvj has suggested by his post.

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it worked!
now the interface is smooth and clear

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Anything in the upgrade that would alter the page loading speed?

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Short-term yes. Apparently there are subtle formatting changes that have taken place in all the messages, between the last time I upgraded the software (about 4 years ago) and now. The system is now going through the 10,000 threads and updating the formatting on all these messages in the background right now, and I think its partly driven by the process of “views” of the given thread. So yes, sometimes you’ll see a bit of a slowdown, but this should go away in the next week.

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I applaud the emoji upgrade when reacting to posts.

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Everything looks good. I like that decluttered look with hiding the left column, very much unlike Reddit!

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What I figured. Should settle down soon. Thanks! The new configuration of hiding some of the views unless selected should help with the load too, in time.