MDGarcia Posted March 20, 2009 Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 This post will carry all the updates and changes to the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted April 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2009 There was an outage today for about 15 minutes. A web server configuration file was misapplied during an upgrade and it took a little while to correct it. Everything should be up and running, now. MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted January 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 We are now running SMF 2.0 RC1-1. We will be upgrading to RC2 soon. MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted January 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 We are now running SMF 2.0 RC2. You will notice some interface wonkiness. There were a massive amount of changes made, so until Steff gets a chance to take a look, please bear with the RC2 look. This should not cause any functionality breakages, but if you encounter an error, please let me know at support.adastrafanfic.com. MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLWalker Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Eeeeek! Wow. This... is gonna take some work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLWalker Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Temporarily setting the board to default, darlings. This is going to take... quite awhile. A lot of the backend of the forum is changed, so airy_midnight, our Ad Astra theme, is going to have to be rebuilt or replaced. In the meantime, have the default. And you can change it back to Ad Astra's theme through your profile, if you can live with the mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted January 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Actually, you can't change the theme. Besides, since posting is broken on that theme, you wouldn't want it, anyway. MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted May 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 We are now running 2.0 RC5, which is the latest/greatest. This should close the reported security holes and also apply some bugfixes. Thanks for your patience. MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted May 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 StormChat 0.0.1 has been activated for use by the forum users. MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted May 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 Chat has been upgraded to version 0.2.0. MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted June 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2011 Chat has been upgraded to version 0.2.1 for security patches and some seamless feature additions. MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted June 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 After some battling with the server, SMF has finally been upgraded to version 2.0 Final. This means we're no longer on Release Candidates, which means we're off the 'beta' version of the product and onto the bug-fixed final version. This took a rather longer downtime to accomplish, so I apologize for the wait. Additionally, we are no running version 0.2.5 of the StormChat software. MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted January 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 As the main archive and the forums were down due to the SOPA strike SMF has been updated to 2.0.2, which includes some much-needed security patches since 2.0 GA. I've also included some new mods to stave off some of the bots that have been plaguing us lately. Hopefully, this will help. The archive is now running version 3.5.3 of the eFiction software, a way overdue update. Stability and security patches, mostly. MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted January 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2012 Some changes: - Donation module is now online. Click on 'Donations' at the top to use it. - Twitter account has been tied to the RSS feed for the main archive. @adastrafanfic - Added identifiers for spiders to the Who's Online list. - Applied patch to combat spam, so Steff isn't going crazy. - Configuring new mail server for use later. - Configuring image gallery for later use by users. MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted January 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2012 More upgrades: The server we're sitting on (washu) was upgraded from Ubuntu 9 to Ubuntu 11. Myself and a team of volunteer sysadmins worked for 8 hours' straight to upgrade the server and bring it back online. We upgraded the system kernel as well. Why did we do this? This has a direct impact in upgrading and patching our SQL server for Ad Astra. We were unable to provide the higher package versions to the database server because Ubuntu had since abandoned the version we were running. Therefore, to stay on a supported OS, we had to take time to upgrade, which we did. We tested as much functionality as we could, but if you should encounter any errors, please report them to the support site. MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted February 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 The forums were down with an error after I did some quick maintenance. Apparently, there was a mod that failed installation earlier (when we were on version 2.0 GA) that reared up and took out the ability to post, read, or see who is online. We reverted back to a previous state and then I re-updated us to the proper version. The good news is that we didn't lose any posts whatsoever. Kes is the one who reported it to support. MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted July 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2012 So, I guess the biggest update here is that we've left SMF behind entirely and we're now running on Invision Power Board v3.3.3 -- I will continue to update this thead as we add bugfixes or patches to the software. Documenting this information is a good idea, not just for you, but also gives me a running log of what was applied and when. Thanks, MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted August 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Forums will be down sporadically this weekend as we upgrade the software to the latest version. I'll try to keep it brief. MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted December 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 The Ad Astra blogs have been updated to version 3.5 of the Wordpress platform. You should notice some significant upgrades in how pictures/media is uploaded and managed. MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted January 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 Not necessarily a forums update, but I spent a majority of the evening upgrading the Support system to HESK 2.4.2, which now (thankfully) includes anti-spam capabilities. Getting paged in the middle of the night for spam tickets was driving me crazy! MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted February 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2013 Email Update: We're aware that the SSL certificate expired and we have a new one, we have not yet installed it. We will update it as soon as we can, but it's going to take a little time. MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted May 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2013 We are now running version 3.4.4 of the IPB software. There was a huge security patch in this version, so we are now up to the current build.  MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted May 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2013 Blog Update: All plugins and themes have been brought current. There was a brief maintenance outage this morning, but once the installation/upgrades were completed, the site is back up. Total downtime was five minutes.  MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted September 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2013 Support System Update: Updated to version 2.5.1. Â MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGarcia Posted September 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2013 Blog Update: All blogs are now running the new security patch for Wordpress. Downtime was approximately 15 minutes.  MDg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
