Upcoming Prosebox downtime on Tues 8/20 in Site Updates (Josh)
- Aug. 14, 2024, 6:24 p.m.
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Hey everyone,
Exciting news! We’re closing in on the upgraded Prosebox platform (what we’ve been calling the beta) being ready for prime time. 🥳
Buffy has put in a TON of work the last several months to ensure everything under the hood of the upgraded site is brought fully to up to date in terms of security and stability, as well as squashing a bunch of pesky bugs that kept popping up.
The next step, of course, will be migrating everything over to the new platform and database and ensuring everything is stable. To do that, we’ll need to take the site down fully for 24 hours. Now, will it take the full 24 hours to migrate over? Hopefully not. We’ll probably be back by early afternoon. But just in case there are some issues, we want to give ourselves a bit of a buffer and set expectations properly. We’ll keep the downtime page updated if anything changes.
The plan is to take the site down for 24 hours starting this coming Tuesday, August 20, at 8AM CST
PS there may or may not be a few surprises in store..
<3,
-J
Last updated August 14, 2024
Cat Mommy ⋅ August 14, 2024
Great! What about the issue I told you about on your previous entry? Especially since having an accurate backup with this migration is super important.
josh Cat Mommy ⋅ August 14, 2024
Hey, just saw your comments. I'll mention it to buffy and we'll add it to our list of things to look into, but the time zone issue wont keep your entries from migrating to the new server. It may be an issue with the export script, but everything's safe and sound in the database
Cat Mommy josh ⋅ August 15, 2024
I'm less concerned with it being safe in the database (which is great though) and more concerned with making a private backup of all my entries. Which I can't do without having to manually change hundreds of dates in the exported book.
Buffy Cat Mommy ⋅ August 16, 2024
Hey - can you please share some more details on the issue with exporting? I was testing it yesterday and wasn’t able to figure out what’s broken.
(Feel free to email us the details too if it’s related to a private books/entries)
Cat Mommy Buffy ⋅ August 16, 2024
Does this help? I posted it on FB: For example on the site a backdated entry may say Jan. 01, 2013 at midnight but when exported the date changes to Dec 31, 2012 at 11pm. They're private for now while I'm uploading old entries from the website Open Diary. They might become Members or Friends Only at some point
simple mind Cat Mommy ⋅ August 16, 2024
Oh yeah, that actually makes sense. I say this not as someone who remembers writing the original code (I can't remember what I wrote last WEEK) but as a software developer that has fought many battles against time zones. Most things can be saved as a timestamp in the database based on exactly when it happened, but backdating an entry, it just has to plug in a time to make it a timestamp, like midnight on that day. But not necessarily timezone aware. So the timezone's kicking it back a day on the export because it just doesn't line up with how it's been stored. But I'm sure Buffy picked up on that reading your example as well.
Buffy simple mind ⋅ August 20, 2024
Yep that helps! The timezone issues should be fixed when we move over tomorrow 🤞
Cat Mommy Buffy ⋅ August 20, 2024
Thank you!
GypsyWynd ⋅ August 14, 2024
Fingers crossed for a smooth transition. Thanks for the heads up, andfor all your and Buffy's hard work
Jodie ⋅ August 14, 2024
Thanks for the ehads up. Will there be an otion when we write our entries at the top of the page?
thesunnyabyss ⋅ August 14, 2024
Thank you so much!
EchoSeven ⋅ August 14, 2024
Wooo so exciting to see it’s nearly time! Thanks to you and Buffy for all your hard work!
santa monica ⋅ August 14, 2024
Thank you for the update (and the Mochi tax)! Appreciate all of your effort.
Mr. Mofo ⋅ August 14, 2024
Is it just me or does Mochi look healthier than usual?
Meeks ⋅ August 15, 2024
Thank you.
gypsy spirit ⋅ August 15, 2024
thanks for for-warning us all...hoping it goes smoothly ,
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Camdengirl ⋅ August 15, 2024
Fingers crossed! Those annoying login page not found being banished will be ace…
And Mochi wallpaper? Cute!
Jodi ⋅ August 15, 2024
I have complained multiple times here and on Facebook about being flagged as a spammer when creating multiple entries in private books just to be ignored. So I really hope that's one of the things that is fixed in the new upgrade.
Cat Mommy Jodi ⋅ August 15, 2024
That seems to be a random glitch because the past week I've been uploading to private books with only 30 seconds between posts and I've done a couple hundred since last week. I have had trouble with that being marked as a spammer too but it seems to have resolved itself or they fixed it without telling us.
Buffy Jodi ⋅ August 20, 2024
The spam filters are quite trippy - they were never intended to work against private entries. We'll get this fixed up right away if it's still an issue after the upgrades.
Jodi Buffy ⋅ August 21, 2024
Thank you and thank you for taking the time to reply.
potato ⋅ August 15, 2024
Aww Mochi. So cute ^^
Ferret Mom ⋅ August 15, 2024
Thanks for the heads up! And also 5hank you for all the work being put in.
The Gal Who Gets It ⋅ August 15, 2024
As always, I am so grateful for you and everybody working on making Prosebox possible for us <3
Gonewiththebreeze ⋅ August 15, 2024
We are so grateful for you both (and mochi of course!)
Gangleri ⋅ August 15, 2024
Why standard time and not daylight? ;)
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Adira ⋅ August 17, 2024
I'm just here for the Mochi pics :)
Dance the night away Adira ⋅ August 17, 2024
Same
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Oswego ⋅ August 17, 2024
Many thanks!
Jinn ⋅ August 18, 2024
Great news ! Thanks !
NorthernSeeker ⋅ August 19, 2024
thanks for your work and your update.