I can handle the Oz Full Monty. I mean, not 'handle' handle.

Xander ,'Help'


Buffistas Building a Better Board ++

Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.


Gudanov - May 09, 2020 10:27:32 am PDT #4259 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

I created a Buffistas team on Digitial Ocean and invited Jesse so far. If you want an invite, let me know. It should just be people who want/need to deal with the site infrastructure: the webserver proxy, the application server, and the database.


Tom Scola - May 09, 2020 10:28:19 am PDT #4260 of 4671
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

I should have one.


Gudanov - May 09, 2020 10:29:07 am PDT #4261 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

I've provisioned an Ubuntu 20.04 server so far. I'll also provision a managed PostgreSQL database soon.


Gudanov - May 09, 2020 10:29:24 am PDT #4262 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

Is your profile addy good?


Tom Scola - May 09, 2020 10:56:26 am PDT #4263 of 4671
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Yes, I'm in.


Jesse - May 09, 2020 12:54:01 pm PDT #4264 of 4671
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm afraid I'm not in the group because I changed the email when I was registering. I used my yahoo account, which is first initial last name.


Gudanov - May 09, 2020 2:21:10 pm PDT #4265 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

Hmmm.... I'm rethinking using a managed database. Provisioning a more powerful VM, installing a database, and setting up an automatic backup for the system looks more cost effective, provides more storage, and still provides a backup.


Gudanov - May 10, 2020 6:43:42 am PDT #4266 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

I've upgraded from rails 5 to rails 6 locally and so far so good. I was worried it would be a lot messier.


Karl - May 10, 2020 9:08:56 am PDT #4267 of 4671
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

Cross-posted from the beta board:

Three comments make a post:

1. Phoenix is spelled wrong in the site footer.

2. The header in Spike's Bitches has the non-ASCII characters encoded wrong, which leads to:

3. The "Text Encoding" menu on Firefox doesn't work on the new site -- almost surely due to the <meta charset="utf-8"> tag at the top of the page. A lot of the header (and tagline!) stuff on the old board was originally stored in windows-1252 -- that will require careful attention when migrating to the new database.


Karl - May 10, 2020 9:10:30 am PDT #4268 of 4671
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

Also, Gud, where would you like things we notice to be posted? Here, the new board, some other thread, an issue tracker of some sort? I'm ok with any of those.

(And since I haven't said so before now, thank you so much for taking this on!)