We are back - sort of

[Djetset]

Gosh; I've been away from AP for a few months due to the pressures of work and a very ill member of the family, so shocked to return and see the problems that the site has been experiencing recently.

Very well done to Pal and your brother for all of your hard work and bringing AP back to good health. 

[Paul Jaray]

Excellent work Pal & Co.!
What happened to the list of pics? There are still some missing pics here and there.
I'm deleting double pics from puzzles and fixing the very few errors I found so far...can other members post here links to topics where they found errors they can't fix and we'll try as admins?

[pnegyesi]

Excellent work Pal & Co.!
What happened to the list of pics? There are still some missing pics here and there.
I'm deleting double pics from puzzles and fixing the very few errors I found so far...can other members post here links to topics where they found errors they can't fix and we'll try as admins?

I would not delete duplicates if I were you. Two members reported errors when they deleted duplicates. We are just working on the duplicates problem.
And in the meantime we try to find a fix for the missing pictures. As I said, it will be slow.
You can report topics, sure

Thanks

[Wendax]

Some of my puzzles still lack its pictures. I can see some of them in the hexlist you refer to in reply #40, but the links don't work. Unfortunately, I usually don't keep all of my puzzle pics, so is there a way to set up a directory with those still orphanized pictures?

[pnegyesi]

yes, it will happen once my brother will have a little time. Thanks for your patience

[nicanary]

For the past 3 or 4 days the small puzzle photos in the sidebar have been very slow in appearing. Is this my laptop, or are other members having this problem? It means having to wait a few seconds before I can select a puzzle to view.

[Bill Murray]

Hi Andy:

FWIW, I have noticed that the first time a photo appears on a new posting on all threads, it takes one to two seconds to load.
Once it has been loaded, it seems to come up fine even when it goes back to the top of the thread later when someone posts a response to the puzzle.

Bill

[nicanary]

Thanks. So it wasn't, after all, those sites that cause viruses that I  shouldn't be looking at 

[pnegyesi]

There's still a lot of missing pictures - actually those are not missing, but stored on the server under names like 42981_e32fe2a388e1f79d44bf829ec666d66eb1075580
which makes pairing very difficult.

Thanks for everyone who took the trouble of re-uploading the pictures. I really have zero free time these days, but I try to help in very small ways.

[Paul Jaray]

You already did a great job putting AP back together! 

[nicanary]

You already did a great job putting AP back together! 

Yes!!  We all owe the brothers a huge debt of gratitude. I think a few missing images are a small price to pay.

[pnegyesi]

Thanks.

The way restored the site was to match images and post dates with a bit of time tolerance. That is the reason why a few pictures appear mysteriously in wrong places.
However we were not able to restore puzzle pictures where:
- pictures were stored in-line and not as an attachment
- the post date was later modified (edited)

There is also a very strange error, which I will mention to my brother. There are hundreds of images which are still attached to the relevant post but are not showing. If you download-upload the pictures, they appear again.

[Carnut]

There is also a very strange error, which I will mention to my brother. There are hundreds of images which are still attached to the relevant post but are not showing. If you download-upload the pictures, they appear again.

Yes, I've found very many of these.
I save the picture which does open in Photo Viewer then re-upload it and hey presto! it appears again as a thumbnail.
I've done this with a large number of puzzles but I don't put any comment in that I've done it so the thread remains in its location, which might be on page 55 or wherever, so no-one ever notices!

[DHoffmann]

There is also a very strange error, which I will mention to my brother. There are hundreds of images which are still attached to the relevant post but are not showing. If you download-upload the pictures, they appear again.

Yes, I've found very many of these.
I save the picture which does open in Photo Viewer then re-upload it and hey presto! it appears again as a thumbnail.
I've done this with a large number of puzzles but I don't put any comment in that I've done it so the thread remains in its location, which might be on page 55 or wherever, so no-one ever notices!

Ditto, I've recovered all images so they are attached and visible again on all posts I could find of mine. This would be a lot easier - for searching other people's posts as well - if we were able to search an individual's created threads, not just posts. I understand this might not be the correct thread to pose this as a suggestion in, but might this be a possible implementation in the future?

[Otto Puzzell]

.... but I don't put any comment in that I've done it so the thread remains in its location, which might be on page 55 or wherever, so no-one ever notices!

I guess I was not mindful of the impact to the Autopzzles continuum when I added a note. Most of those I corrected last week were done sans comment.

[pnegyesi]

.... but I don't put any comment in that I've done it so the thread remains in its location, which might be on page 55 or wherever, so no-one ever notices!

I guess I was not mindful of the impact to the Autopzzles continuum when I added a note. Most of those I corrected last week were done sans comment.

And I believe that's the correct method.

[Otto Puzzell]

Yep - got it.

[pnegyesi]

To all members: tomorrow at around 8 AM CET (+1 hour compared to British time) AutoPuzzles will be moved to a new server. It is possible that AP will not be reachable for a short period of time.

[Carnut]

To all members: tomorrow at around 8 AM CET (+1 hour compared to British time) AutoPuzzles will be moved to a new server. It is possible that AP will not be reachable for a short period of time.

Hope you've got a back-up copy of everything!

[pnegyesi]

Right now doing regular backup is a bit difficult. The reason for the move is to make this process fully automated. Here's what's going to happen. The move has been postponed by a few hours. Later today (it's 8:30 AM CET) AP will disappear. We'll try to do it quickly. Then we ask Ultra to do his thing. When he does his thing, AP will come back

[pnegyesi]

And after an almost six-month delay, the move is about to happen.

Please take note and be advised that on Saturday, 21 November AutoPuzzles will disappear for a few hours. We will shut the site down at 6 PM Pacific Time which is night-time in Europe. It will take around 3-4 hours for the changes to take effect.

[Arunas]

Cool news! I am looking forward to it!  

[pnegyesi]

The move has been postponed by 24 hours to Sunday. Sorry

[pnegyesi]

The site was moved a week ago. I don't want to go into details or point fingers why it has disappeared for a week. But now it's back and I am not yapping at my very tired and exasperated brother's feet.
This past few days illustrated some organisational weaknesses which I would like to address in the near future.

[oko94]

Glad to see the site back, at some point I thought it was gone for good !