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Nate

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  • Information Desk Archive Re: Report a site bug

    Yep, there were some problems with WFP yesterday. It's hosted by a different hosting provider than YWS, so it's on a completely different server. The issue should be fixed now, ...

    Jan 29, 2013
  • Welcome Mat Re: Introduce yourself for a second time

    1. If you could have an endless supply of any food, what would you get? I'm going to count beverages as a type of a food, and go for Diet ...

    Jan 29, 2013
  • Welcome Mat Re: Introduce yourself for a second time

    This Welcome forum has gotten to be a bit dull. So let's mix things up a bit by introducing ourselves for a second time :D But just listing your hobbies ...

    Jan 28, 2013
  • Welcome Mat Re: Greetings and Salutations!

    Welcome to YWS, Christian! I've lost a lot of works of mine as well in the past. It used to be easy to back everything up on floppy disk, but ...

    Jan 28, 2013
  • Information Desk Archive Re: YWS is now hosted by Linode

    It looks like there's a problem with a lot of avatars. This happened once before with a server move. I don't know exactly why it happens, but I'm looking into ...

    Jan 27, 2013
  • Information Desk Archive Re: YWS is now hosted by Linode

    You're welcome! Just did a server reset to finish some configuration stuff regarding the database. Specifically, I set up a better temp directory for the database to use that'll help ...

    Jan 26, 2013
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Report a site bug

    Sorry everyone about the general mysql error that just popped up! Was trying to set up a new tmp directory for mysql, and it obviously didn't go over well.

    Jan 26, 2013
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Report a site bug

    Using http://www.webpagetest.org, I just tested the load times for YWS from Dulles, VA; Miami, FL; San Jose, CA; Wellington, NZ; and Geneva, Switzerland. The slowest I got was from San ...

    Jan 26, 2013
  • Information Desk Archive Re: YWS is now hosted by Linode

    After experiencing consistent server disruptions on VPS.net, YWS has switched to Linode. The problem with appears to have been a disk problem. There could have been a damaged hard disk, ...

    Jan 26, 2013
  • Information Desk Archive Re: YWS: Apollo Updates Thread

    Last night, I fixed the summaries for literary works such that the short description rather than an excerpt from the work is displayed. But now that it's fixed, I think ...

    Jan 24, 2013
  • Information Desk Archive Re: YWS: Apollo Updates Thread

    Just finished putting together a search engine for literary works. The cool thing about the search engine is that it's now much easier to find all works by a user ...

    Jan 24, 2013
  • Information Desk Re: Literary Search Tips

    When searching the literary database, there are a couple specific phrases that you can use to make the search better. Works by a specific user: by Works by a specific ...

    Jan 24, 2013
  • Information Desk Archive Re: Site downtime - January 23, 2013

    YWS crashed at approximately 11pm GMT January 23, and again at 12:30 am GMT January 24. Unfortunately, I have no information at this time regarding what caused the crash. The ...

    Jan 24, 2013
  • Information Desk Archive Re: YWS: Apollo Updates Thread

    ;n; Did you just add line numbers to poems? My hero! {or have they always been there?} Haha, you caught me while I was experimenting with that! I've been trying ...

    Jan 23, 2013
  • Information Desk Archive Re: YWS: Apollo Updates Thread

    You can now save drafts of reviews/comments to literary works.

    Jan 22, 2013


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