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by Evan Prodromou
Intermittent problems on Identi.ca
Posted 48 weeks 4 days ago

I've had some intermittent problems with slave lag and queue lag on Identi.ca over the last day or so, resulting in delays in timelines (showing activities minutes or hours old) and flooding of the real-time updates.

I'm provisioning a few new database slaves to pick up the slack, which should get us back on an even track.

Update: New slave is in place; I'm going to add more over the weekend.

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StatusNet at Montreal Hackdays
Posted 49 weeks 3 days ago

I'll be at HackDaysMTL 2012. This great event has teams of 1-3 developers creating apps focused on local and social. I'm going to take the opportunity to roll out a sneak peek of our newest codebase, which I think should be pretty fun.

Tickets are still available; see the Eventbrite page for details.

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event, hack, statusnet
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Identi.ca support in HootSuite
Posted 1 year 3 weeks ago

 A quick note to point to the latest update from HootSuite. The company has added support for Identi.ca to their app directory, which means that HootSuite can be a part of your toolkit for Identi.ca goodness.

Thanks to the gang at HootSuite for their support. We hope people try it out.

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client, hootsuite, identica
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Unscheduled downtime for some Status.net sites
Posted 1 year 7 weeks ago

 One of our database servers for the StatusNet OnDemand service was scheduled for migration by our cloud provider last night. The migration failed, so I'm moving all data to a new server. We should be back online later this morning EST.

11:15AM EST: Looks like we're back online.

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Scheduled downtime 18 March 2012 10:00AM EDT
Posted 1 year 9 weeks ago

 I need to migrate one of our static content virtual servers before the end of the day tomorrow (18 March 2012) or it's going to get migrated without me. So, I'm going to schedule the process instead of having it just happen.

The migration process apparently takes about 30 minutes, but I'm going to do a backup while the server is down, too. So expect about 60 minutes for the process.

Some StatusNet sites will remain up during the downtime.

Update (10:19AM EDT): sites are down now.

Update (10:33AM EDT): backing up the static server.

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Why was my account locked?
Posted 1 year 16 weeks ago

Over the last few weeks, a few high-profile accounts on Identi.ca, like @methoddan and @jezra, were inexplicably locked out of the system. I'm currently analyzing the possible causes, but I wanted to give a general idea of what's going on.

Here are my current suspected causes:

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account, identica, locked, spam
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freelish.us is back online!
Posted 1 year 16 weeks ago

 Our upgrade to StatusNet 1.0.0 in September 2011 had some unfortunate side-effects. Some of the public services we ran were taken off-line after the upgrade... and never returned.

One of the most beloved, freelish.us, the Open Source, Open Content bookmark-sharing service, has been requested (emphatically) by many users. Most of the functionality has been subsumed by the rest of StatusNet, but we wanted to have it back up anyway. As of this past weekend, the server is back on-line.

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bookmark, freelishus, sharing
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Identi.ca blackout 18 Jan 2012 8AM-8PM EST to protest SOPA/PIPA
Posted 1 year 18 weeks ago

Identi.ca will join Reddit, the Cheezburger Network, and dozens of other web sites in protest of the Stop Online Privacy Act proposed in the US Congress and its corresponding Senate bill, Protect IP.

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blackout, identica, protest, sopa
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PubSubHubbub W3C Community group
Posted 1 year 18 weeks ago

There is a new proposed community group for PubSubHubbub at the W3C. 

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group, ostatus, pubsubhubbub, standards, w3c
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Identi.ca down [UPDATE: not any more]
Posted 1 year 21 weeks ago

 Identi.ca is currently down; I just got off an airplane. We had a flood of new users and posters over the last 24 hours, and the extra traffic seems to have sunk our database server.

I'm trying to revive the server (it's currently re-starting), but I might take the opportunity to move to our new data centre. If we're down, maybe it's time to do the move. Watch this space for details.

Update 14:50 PM PST: I can't seem to revive the main database server, so I'm copying data to another server in the same data centre to see if it wants to wake up.

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downtime, identica