Drop your name for End of Year thread here! ANNNNNNDDDD Go!
Right, what's a little sweater sniffing between sworn enemies?
Riley ,'Sleeper'
Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura
Stompy Emerita: ita, DXMachina
msbelle - Dec 09, 2019 3:02:33 pm PST #6382 of 6786
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Jessica - Dec 09, 2019 4:24:42 pm PST #6383 of 6786
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Goodbye and Good Riddance: Hey, at least you didn't get a Peleton.
-t - Dec 09, 2019 4:27:38 pm PST #6384 of 6786
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ha! That's gonna be hard to beat
Steph L. - Dec 09, 2019 4:34:50 pm PST #6385 of 6786
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Goodbye and Good Riddance: Hey, at least you didn't get a Peleton.
Ahahahahahaha!!!
msbelle - Dec 09, 2019 6:57:05 pm PST #6386 of 6786
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I think we are done here.
msbelle - Dec 09, 2019 7:00:30 pm PST #6387 of 6786
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
It is up and open - I am drunk on power.
Gudanov - Dec 30, 2019 4:23:07 am PST #6388 of 6786
Coding and Sleeping
I'd like to make a new year's resolution for the board. I'd like to move to the new ruby on rails codebase.
I need to update the versions of some of the dependencies, but not really much else. I think moving is important so that registration will work again, logging out will work, the gaping security holes are fixed, and the board will work better on mobile.
Here's what I'd like to do:
1. Start posting warnings about the change all over the place at b.org. It is important that either you know your password or that your profile addy is good in order to keep your current account on the new board.
2. Create a Digital Ocean account for the Buffistas so that the site isn't on my account.
3. Create an Ubuntu 18.04 (or 20.04 if we move in May or later which seems likely) VM and get the board software all installed and working.
4. Set the address of the new board as www.buffistas.me, get a cert, and set up encryption.
5. Create/move the static pages like FAQ, how-to, site etiquette, links, etc... The new board has the ability to edit these pages online in the admin section, but some may require more formatting than that, so there could be some work there which could be started before step 2.
6. Migrate data to the new board. (I've done this a couple of times already so the process appears good.)
7. Make a webpage at www.buffistas.org to redirect to the new site.
8. I don't know about the registration of buffistas.org, but it is registered by dreamhost we'd need to move registars.
9. Reset the DNS servers for buffistas.org to Digital Ocean. Then get certs, and add set up the webserver to also accept www.buffistas.org and buffistas.org.
10. We are moved and modernized.
Is this something we can get done in 2020? Does that plan sound okay?
Calli - Dec 30, 2019 11:25:34 am PST #6389 of 6786
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Sounds good to me, Gud. But it also sounds like a lot of work. Is this something we can help you with? Even the less code-y people (like me) could help with things like announcements.
Jesse - Dec 30, 2019 12:17:35 pm PST #6390 of 6786
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have all the registration info, when the time comes for that.
Gudanov - Jan 03, 2020 8:55:06 am PST #6391 of 6786
Coding and Sleeping
Cool. I think I'll look at starting the move process in May so that Ubuntu 20.04 will be out. That will be good for 5 years of security updates.