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Tell HN: Planned Maintenance Jan 23 1-5 AM PST
During the maintenance window the site will be intermittently available, with varying degrees of responsiveness.
Tweaking our storage configuration a bit.
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoAre these redesigned backup or improving recovery speed related changes by any chance?
- tptacek 13y agoWhoah, new noticeboard feature. I like it! It harmonizes with my topcolor. I object to labeling "Tweaking our storage configuration a bit" as "details", though. ;)
- redler 13y agoI'm sure there will be an extremely detailed postmortem. "Tell HN: We Tweaked our Storage"
- makmanalp 13y agoI don't know if that's a noticeboard feature or someone just stuck the notice in the html template for now :P
- krapp 13y agotomato, tomato.
- brandonhsiao 13y agoHow would you propose implementing a noticeboard feature?
- nostrademons 13y agoSites that do user notices on a regular basis often create a system where small bits of text go into a DB along with start & end times for display, the admin who posted it (for auditing purposes), countries where it's visible, etc. There's an ACL for who's authorized to post new notices. Then the main site template has a section that's shown only when there's an active notice and automatically disappears when the notice is stale. All this is probably overkill for a site like HN. However, think about things like tsunami warnings on the Google homepage. These get shown only in a certain geographical location, they need to be approved by multiple people, and they need to get pushed out to tens of thousands of servers, all within minutes of the alert coming in. There's a lot of complexity that can go into even a simple feature.
- jbrooksuk 13y agoGitLab has this feature, but it's called Broadcast.
- sjtgraham 13y agoIs that new, or is it the same thing PG et al use to ask YC applicants questions about their applications?
- jey 13y agoReally? I thought email is used for that.
- elwell 13y agoIf something looks new on HN it probably isn't. I mean just look at the page source; it's tables. I take that back: don't look at the page source.
- krapp 13y agoThe html doesn't necessarily have to reflect the source code. pg and kogir have mentioned making changes to it now and then.
- Kluny 13y agoI love the page source! It's educational in its simplicity and confident in its austerity. I've used it as a learning guide in the past, when I was starting to code simple projects.
- elwell 13y agoNo
- chli 13y agoI guess that's what broke my favorite HN Android App. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly.hn https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly...
- bane 13y agoGood luck!
- sgt 13y agoAnd may the Source be with you.
- k0mplex 13y agoWhile you're tweaking things, mind increasing the font size? I typically zoom in, but then the up arrows get pixelated. Such problems!
- andyfleming 13y agoCheck out the "HackerNew" Chrome extension. It's a much nicer look and interaction, IMO.
- nitrogen 13y agoYou could use a user stylesheet to change the font size without scaling the arrows.
- elwell 13y agoI think sort of statement is pg's secret intention / reasoning behind keeping HN the same: hackers will make it work for themselves (e.g., via custom stylesheet etc.).
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- guptaneil 13y agoThe problem with that reasoning is that it only applies to desktop. It's mobile where reading HN is painful, and that's exactly where I can't use custom stylesheets, at least not without installing a new browser.
- tokenizerrr 13y agoThere's several great apps though ;)
- sjwright 13y agoAs do I. In fact, one of my favourite Firefox add-ons is called NoSquint, which remembers your zoom setting on a per-site basis. For me, Hacker News is constantly at 150%, and wikipedia is 180%. As for the arrows being pixelated, rather than having higher resolution images, shouldn't the images be replaced with unicode? ▲ ▲ ▼ ▼
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- alttab 13y agoWhat, no zero downtime DB deployments?
- tsm 13y agoHN doesn't have a DB.
- dragonwriter 13y agoIt clearly has a DB, even if it is a simple filesystem store. DB != RDBMS.
- kogir 13y agoI promise to do a post-mortem (with details), but from my perspective the issues that began on Jan 6th are ongoing. It's all I've been working on since then. Once I get a break I'll write a blog post about it, and try the Matasano/Square and Stripe CTFs :)
- beefsack 13y agoFor easy conversion to your own local time: http://localtime.io/#?d=Jan%2023%201-5%20AM%20PST http://localtime.io/#?d=Jan%2023%201-5%20AM%20PST
- hglaser 13y agoThank you for spending so much time on this. We appreciate it.
- frozenport 13y agoWhat kind of storage requirements does HN have? I would expect everything to fit snuggly in 32GB of ram.
- lucb1e 13y agoSo what's PST? Why can't we all use UTC/GMT+/-x so we all understand?
- brokenparser 13y ago0900Z - 1300Z
- m_gloeckl 13y agoI guess most folks do know the difference between their own local timezone and UTC. That would have really saved me a couple of seconds to find out the difference between PST and UTC first.
- alextingle 13y agoFurthermore, those "timezone" labels are inherently ambiguous. Either use the UTC offset (UTC-8) or the zoneinfo name (America/Los_Angeles).
- lucb1e 13y ago> or the zoneinfo name (America/Los_Angeles). Although it'd usually give me some idea, I wouldn't know what the offset of LA is.
- mcintyre1994 13y agoIt does seem to be a standard format though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
- lucb1e 13y agoI'm sure you can find PST in a standard somewhere too, but the point is that by using UTC+x everyone can instantly determine their local time. Okay quick quiz: What time is it currently in Europe/Zaporozhye? ... Time up! Alright next question. What time is it currently in UTC-3? ... Time up! Final question: What time is it currently in the GST timezone? ... Time up! All of them used standard formats. Which one was the easiest?
- krishnakarki 13y agogood luck
- cmelbye 13y agoHow much karma do we need to change the color of the announcements bar?
- henrygrew 13y agogood luck, it's a commendable thing that you're doing.
- jmathai 13y agoI can't believe they're finally fixing the pagination bugs! Super excited.
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