Rocknerd: not dead yet!

[reddragdiva]

In fact, it's showing distinct stirrings. New server, courtesy blarglefiend. Still tweaking and tuning.

You can now log in. (If you're a regular reader and especially a regular poster, you really do want to bother.) You can still post anonymously (as 'Industry Shill'). If you've used Slashdot, you'll be familiar with the system.

If your work proxy/firewall is too paranoid, you may not be able to access the site - http://rocknerd.org/ automatically redirects to http://rocknerd.org:8002/, and sometimes the firewall is in front of the proxy and not letting odd ports through. This seems to be what's happening for me and others. Fortunately, there are ways around this; this one or this one work for me. (Please comment if you're having such problems.)

The old site content is not up yet. We haven't worked out how to port from the old Squish database without application of brute force and ignorance. (And there's ahahaha the Senojweb bill to pay. Which will be paid, karma being a good thing to preserve.) There's a 'We're Back' thread for helpful suggestions.

Rocknerd previously ran Squishdot, which was pish-easy to set up and run, but suffered an unfortunate case of being a hideously unstable piece of shit that crashed like an obsessive test dummy; on several occasions managing to eat its own database in the process and needing to be restored from backups. We considered a few engines - I would have liked Scoop, but it doesn't yet have a stable branch - and eventually went with Slash. Which is a bugger to tweak or customise, but is industrial-strength and stable enough for Slashdot, so should suffice for our small needs.

Last night at Liquid Lab was fun, even if I was a goddamn zombie. mircea sums the evening up nicely, and duranorak has the roll call. Tonight I stay home and sleep.

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[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Rocknerd.org is baaaack! :)
(Uh was goin' all twitchy from withdraal symptoms)