Data Engineers Have Optimal Solution To Restore Comment Function:
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It appears we have a workable solution achieved. Excellent….
….Welcome Back Gang… let’s test drive this thing.
Run it hard, use this thread to try out the stuff you are familiar doing. Let’s see what we need to tweek modify or adjust to get back to peak operational condition. Share your issues and ideas in comments.
We are no longer on Automattic/WordPress servers and despite the extremely tight forced eviction timeline we have achieved a safe rebuild ten hours ahead of deadline. Quite an accomplishment considering the scale of the task at hand, and a holiday in the middle of it.
There are a few random reports of regional DNS issues and here’s a few tips we are discovering from users:
♦ Make sure you are using the latest version of your browser software. Reports of Mac not reaching through to new site, but when OS “Big Sur” is added things improve.
♦ Make sure your cookies and cache are not returning you to old site activity. I apologize for this issue because clearing your browsing history is always a mess and can often require you to re-enter all saved passwords, but that’s one of the unavoidable issues with an entirely new set of servers and new DNS targeting.
♦ All regional Internet Service Providers (ISP’s), responses for queries and bookmarks launched by users, should be aimed toward our new servers now. Some of them took a long time to update, and there is a familiar pattern to it (discussion for another day).
♦ Remember, while we are using WordPress open source code/software, we are not operating inside the WordPress/Automattic platform. Some proprietary functions of WP/Automattic will not be available. I think the notification bell is one of those functions.
♦ There will be a new email-notification program initiated later today that will allow you to sign up for email notifications of new articles and updates. [In the works] In the interim Twitter users can use the notification function and all articles will cross-post to Twitter.
There are going to be features and site enhancements to come along later. Right now the priority was to keep everything as identical and familiar as possible. We will likely be doing some cool site changes now that we have full proprietary control and ownership of the site.
Thanks again for bearing with us as we work through some technical issues, search for optimal solutions, and fiercely retain the original values and mission priority of the Treehouse. The Truth Has No Agenda
Please be patient if you get hung up in a moderation cue. It may take time to release some comments if they are hung up in moderation. The site admins do a great job with comment moderation and release so it shouldn’t be too much of an issue; and quite frankly, there are likely to be benefits from not having WordPress/Automattic software filtering through the comments as they post. Spam removal will be a priority.
Thank you for your support and fellowship. We will always work diligently to deserve it.
As word spreads… the voices of the rebel alliance are arriving now. The best open-source researchers in the world are firing up their laptops and preparing for the most critical moments in the battle to save our nation. The CTH printing presses are rebuilt, oiled, and the deep rumble of the machinery is slowly building to a deafening roar.
We are extraordinarily thankful… and itching to get FREE VOICES back into this fight.
Love to all,
~ Sundance
This will be my 1st comment ever as a test form. Could never get my comments to work on CTH 1.0 even though I was a daily reader/follower for the past 4 years.
Why not try again? Are you giving up on voting because you’ve been shown that your vote never actually meant anything?
Great to see comments! Hoping mine posts too, thank you Sundance and your incredible team!
Congratulations! We NEED CTH and more sites like it. (Longtime reader) FYI, on my IPad mini there is a white rectangle that obliterates mid screen on the left for some reason. THANK YOU THANK YOU, Sundance! God bless you.
And, it’s fixed now!
Wonderful Job, Sundance and the whole team.
Quick question: Is there a way to login still, I can’t seem to find how if so.
Or do we just post with email each time?
I see people still have avatars so I was thinking there might be something I am missing.
readyandable1…
My avatar populated itself nicely with no help from me.
Probably those cookies I forgot to clean up first.
YAY!! and Congratulations
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Glad CTH is back!
Thank you Sundance! Boy did I miss all you Treepers!
Yay! I missed you. So glad to see the treehouse back and that the branches are full.
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Great to be back amongst the trees with y’all. (I hope?) Absence makes the heart grow fonder!
Giving it a try here. Fingers crossed. Hello, Treepers!
PC is good to go testing Comment from IPad.
Awaiting moderation, sweet success?
Well done! Thank you to Sundance and the entire crew!
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thank you Sundance and Team, you are the best.
Welcome back!
Great work to you and all the staff. Let’s roll.
Taking a test drive. 🙂
Thanks from a grateful WTGrma. Kudos to Sundance and his amazing team. God Bless!
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Hello all. Good to be back with the family. Now, any swamp rats been placed in orange jump suits recently? Oh well, didn’t think so. On with the fight!!
searching for the perfect small limb at this time.
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first sin in for long time lurker of the only site I trust
Thank you Sundance, an amazing, loyal American
Good morning and Welcome to the new Home!!
So nice to have you back!
I must admit had a nice reading of some of those posts from 2011 that popped up when I went looking for you ;-).
The fronting prayer was a lovely gift! More so since I was still a political novice and had not discovered The Refuge yet back then.
What an extraordinary thing you have accomplished with this move under the circumstances. I’m awestruck and filled with admiration as well as grateful that you chose to continue your mission! My prayers will continue to be with you all.
Love, Roozter
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Booyah!
Nicely put together in a short amount of time! Kudos!
If this has already been brought to your attention my apologies, I have speedy WiFi and when connected it does take a bit long to actually submit a comment?
Upon clicking “Post Comment” it takes like 8-10 seconds to actually post.
Cycles through “Submitting” then “Redirecting” – just a heads up, great job!
Welcome back!
I hope this works!
So happy our beautiful Conservative Tree House is back, feel most safe from the swamp here. Thank you Sundance and all 🙂
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Glad you made it back – froma fellow desert deplorable…:)
Welcome back.?
So Happy!!! Thanks CTH for all your hard work. We need you more than ever. You’all are definitely soul mates of President Trump as you too never give up.
Hooray!
I hope I made it back.
I hope I made it back
The Truth Trumps Tyrants!
Great Job Sundance and Team! Thanks a Million, from all your Patriot Friends!
Thank you Sundance.
Thank you Sundance. Sorry if this reposts.
On comment submittal got a weird message about the Form not being able to be submitted…I took that as a ‘busy server’ message, tried a second time and it worked.
Seems fine here…
Thank you for everything, Sundance. You are a port in the storm.
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Good morning after the successful launch! Getting there but still a few speedbumps…
Just FYI, my glitch of the day – in the Brave browser I can’t go to anywhere off the home page without getting Service unavailable (using iPad).
Now in Safari and getting to secondary pages is very fast. A Brave-specific bug, maybe?
We’ll see how/whether this comment posts… In Safari the name/email save checkbox is off, I am leaving it off for simplicity of this test…
Just tried to reload CTH’s home page and got a msg that the ‘Secure’ Site could not be loaded (https:…) but it did load the normal https: site.
This coupled with the above Form error I take to mean the server performance that CTH is now running on is having issues.
If CTH is not doing this it’s worth a look (I’ve been designing web sites since the early 1990’s) Set up the front end using Akami, it load balances servers so they are not being hit one at a time, the system automatically knows which of a host of physical servers are not busy and redirects traffic to least busy server.
Mick
Not posting comments past 9:41 am???
Weird. Now several comments appear. And I refreshed.
Sorry for the repost.
Here we go… Howdy Everyone! We’re Back Baby! 😉
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Hi! I’m here I think.
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O.K. Glad to have you back. Now, on with the contest