After several days of seemingly endless outages and timeouts, We Hunted the Mammoth is on a new server and … working ok so far (crossed fingers). There’s one more little change the WordPress people need to make; hopefully that won’t disrupt the site for too long.
In any case, I’ll resume posting shortly. Welcome back, everyone!
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The site took a minute or two to load on my first try. Second time was the charm. I’m using a PC.
Hang in there, David. I’m sure you’re super frustrated.
Alan:
I take it you’re a fan of Microsoft Edge…
bumblebug:
I used to buy Zyrtec and not consider alternatives, because it worked like a charm. One time a pharmacy employee semi-randomly recommended me (as they are legally required to do) a less known, identical product called Cetimax that turns out to be far cheaper.
… pation.
@ opposablethumbs
Yey! Thank you for not disappointing.
(I just couldn’t not! (>.<) )
I am nominating this post’s headline for 2022’s Lie of the Year.
In a year where Trump is neither President nor running for that office, I’d give it decent odds of winning, too.
@ surplus
Ah, but David just said he thought the site might be fixed. And there’s nothing to suggest that’s not true.
Also the use of the question mark puts us all on notice that that’s not guaranteed.
@ surplus
Ah, but David just said he thought the site might be fixed. And there’s nothing to suggest that that’s not true.
Also the use of the question mark puts us all on notice that that’s not guaranteed.
The announcement was definitely a bit premature.
I’ve been getting errors 404, 500, and 524. Also error 524 is usually preceded by a note about Cloudflare’s DDoS protection. (Don’t remember exactly what it says).
@Surplus to Requirements: I know someone who refers to anything incorrect as a “lie”, even going as far as saying “oops, I lied” when they get something wrong. It gets so annoying that I’ve tried a few times explaining the difference between a lie and a mistake, but it doesn’t seem to help. English is their first language, so that’s not the reason.
Ironically, assuming that they’re not being annoying on purpose, the only reason why they’re not lying when they say they’re lying is because they’re mistaken about what “lying” means. They’re still incorrect about it though.
I’m mentioning it because you’re starting to annoy me for the same reasons, and while I can’t demand you stop, please stop it anyway.
Yes, my announcement was definitely premature, or to put it another way, wrong. The root of the problem yesterday was a delay in getting cloudflare up and running properly. Cloudflare is helping to protect from bots and will speed things up once we get the continuing problems with the site’s huge database (thousands of posts and hundreds of thousands of comments) dealt with. My tech maven friend has a plan for that.
FWIW, the site has been much more responsive (at least for me) on tablets and phones. I don’t know why that is. Many fewer error messages accessing the site that way.
@ snowberry
I’d never considered that before. But there is a Yorkshire (Northern?) idiom of saying “Ooh, I tell lie…” when you misspeak and then correct.
E.g. if you are giving directions “You take the first turning…ooh, I tell a lie; I mean the second turning…”
Wonder how that originated. Has lie always meant a deliberate untruth; or did it once just mean any factually incorrect statement?
Paging all our etymologists.
@Alan
That habit is by way of ironic self-depreciation, lie has had its current meaning since English was still Anglo-Saxon.
@ dali
Ah thank you. Knew you’d know.
We’ve had occasion to talk about this distinction a bit lately. All to do with the words malice and maliciously.
In defamation, they can mean an intentional untruth; but also a reckless one.
In insolvency the words mean only intentional untruth.
And that might become an issue in that case.