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Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

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797 points burnerbob | 1 comments | 20 Jul 23 23:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.284s | source
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tptacek ◴[21 Jul 23 05:33 UTC] No.36810326[source]▶
Y'all, this is going to be deeply unsatisfying, but it's what I can report personally:

I have no earthly clue why this thread on our community site is unlisted.

We're looking at the admin UI for it right now, and there's like, a little lock next to do the story, but the "unlist story" option is still there for us to click. The best I can say is: I'm reasonably sure there wasn't some top-down edict to hide this thread (the site is public, anybody can sign up for an account and see the thread).

Say what you want about us, but hiding out from stuff like this isn't one of our flaws. When I find out more about what happened with this thread, I'll let you know (or Kurt will reply here and tell me I'm wrong).

I don't know enough about what happened with this Sydney server to be helpful to people who had instances running on it. When I know more about it, I'll be helpful, but I'm just learning about this stuff right now, after getting back in from a night out.

Almost immediately afterwards

It looks like... all the posts in the app-not-working category are "private"? Like it's some setting on the category itself? "Private" here means you need to have signed up for a Discourse account to see them?

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sho ◴[21 Jul 23 05:35 UTC] No.36810339[source]▶
> I have no earthly clue why this thread on our community site is unlisted.

Maybe it's hosted in the SYD region

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tptacek ◴[21 Jul 23 05:50 UTC] No.36810414[source]▶
It's hosted by Discourse.
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NBJack ◴[21 Jul 23 05:53 UTC] No.36810432[source]▶
Another good reason to avoid that platform like the plague.
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sethherr ◴[21 Jul 23 05:58 UTC] No.36810466[source]▶
What are the other good reasons? All my experiences with Discourse have been great.
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1. inferiorhuman ◴[21 Jul 23 08:20 UTC] No.36811378[source]▶
The interface itself?

For instance one of those things I've noticed is that most Discourse instances have those nag banners if you're not logged in begging you to log in – and that's one of the least objectionable things they do IMO. I discovered recently that Discourse also blacklists all but the most recent browsers (because Discourse is designed for the next ten years!) and serves up a plain text version on anything older… but not without a nag banner of its own admonishing you for not using a supported browser.

The infinite scrolling… ugh. I'm not a huge fan of XenForo, but as a successor to vBulletin it seems to be far more user friendly.