Site Glitches
I am aware that there have been problems with commenting and viewing the site today. The problems are no doubt due to the combination of embedding YouTube videos, together with unusually high traffic from an Instapundit link.
The folks at Hosting Matters have not yet replied to an e-mail I sent them. I am also trying to get in touch with someone who has helped me with tech issues in the past, also with no luck (so far).
In the meantime, even if you get an error message, your comment may nevertheless have been posted. Check the site before posting again.
Anyone with experience in such matters is invited to help me out. I’d probably be willing to throw a couple of bucks your way to get this resolved.
UPDATE: A fix is in the works.
Don’t be in a hurry to tinker with it. It looks fine, now, in any case. Blogger has also been messed up all day and is now down for repairs.
nk (5e5670) — 6/8/2006 @ 5:38 pmI think it looks fine only because my guy is on the job.
Patterico (50c3cd) — 6/8/2006 @ 5:39 pmYep, looks good from here too … test comment …
Anwyn (01a5cc) — 6/8/2006 @ 5:39 pmSorry.
nk (9abfbf) — 6/8/2006 @ 6:03 pmI had problems posting here earlier too. Glad to know it wasn’t my fault. 😉
It appears to be working fine now. Hope there is no further problem.
Ray (be81f9) — 6/8/2006 @ 6:58 pmThe option to create block quotes and other codes no longer appear in the comment dialogue.
Stu707 (18fdc8) — 6/8/2006 @ 7:40 pmIt seems to have eaten my post from tonight in your 6/5/2006 thread. Is it gone or should i redo it? (hate to, I spent some time on it)
Dark Lord Xenu
Dark Lord Xenu (af8a25) — 6/8/2006 @ 8:46 pmOk, my last comment was moderated by a machine. Never mind, my “do not tinker” previously, are you sure that you or your hosting service have not been hacked?
nk (947b03) — 6/8/2006 @ 8:47 pmHi all, I upgraded Patterico’s WordPress install to the latest stable release, v 2.0.3. One of the things that I added with this upgrade was Spam Karma 2, which uses a heuristic points system to determine whether a comment is spam or not. It “learns” over time, so please bear with the false positives that may arise in the coming days.
O. F. Jay (aa85b2) — 6/8/2006 @ 9:11 pmOF Jay — hmm. I hope it works. 🙂
aphrael (e0cdc9) — 6/8/2006 @ 9:17 pmErm. Now everything on the main page is in italics, with many things that shouldn’t be in bold, in bold.
aphrael (e0cdc9) — 6/9/2006 @ 11:10 amOF Jay, while you’re at it you might want to install the WordPress 2.0.3 Tuneup plugin, which fixes some annoying bugs in the new release (e.g., the one that inserts backslashes before quotation marks when editing comments).
Xrlq (f52b4f) — 6/9/2006 @ 11:20 amOT: hey, is this really what your job is like?
Leopold Stotch (35fb89) — 6/9/2006 @ 8:28 pm