The Animator

Hi all, unfortunately I have to take the site down for up to 30mins in fifteen minutes time.

When I first built the comments system months ago, I made a design mistake which has made things difficult for me to maintain. I have a fix for this, but I will have to take the site down whilst I migrate the data. There are something like 22000 comment threads to migrate, so it'll take a few minutes.

Sorry for the downtime. Please make sure you save your work.

Wait what if something happens and the whole site shuts down

Let’s not think about that.

good luck dan

gl daniel

The site won't shut down. I am taking the site down so I can backup the database whilst you all can't add more comments.

Then if it goes wrong, I'll restore my backup and put the site back up and try another day.

Okay

Five minutes then I take it down. 19:30 GMT

What willl happen when you take it down? Will it automatically log us out?

You’ll see a white error page if you refresh. Clicking anything on the site won’t work until it’s back up.

You’ll probably still be logged in when it comes back up.

Ok. Thanks. Goodluck!

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Alright, we're back. Thanks for your patience.

yay thank u @Dan

It all worked - there were 32,129 threads migrated. You lot make a lot of threads!

Woohoo

🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

yes we do

w o a h

@Dan question what would happen if the site got deleted like forever -

Then I guess you’d have to find a new hand drawn animation website/app!

I don’t have any plans to do that, I should say 😁