On Monday we’re going to be upgrading http://community.spark.io! It’ll be a one-two punch of better hardware and the latest edition of Discourse, our forum software. We’re looking at roughly two hours of work - there will be a couple hours where the site is in read-only mode and perhaps a couple of minutes of weirdness/blank pages while the DNS switch happens. The plan is to start at 3:30 p.m. CST and back to regular operations by 5:30 p.m. CST.
Let us know if you see any disruptions or anything before or after the hours listed above - otherwise, imagine a big green “Don’e Panic” scrawled over the screen if things aren’t working during the upgrade.
We had a few blips on the site over the last half hour due to a wonderful new feature Discourse added relating to rate limiting that was inadvertently misconfigured. The misconfiguration issue only showed up once lots of people started hitting the site. I’ve re-jiggered the settings and we should be good now.
I didn’t see your message about the trust levels earlier, yea, this was unintentional/part-of-the-automated-upgrade path. The Discourse devs seem to have put a lot of effort into trust-levels, a badge system, and other cool social features. I’m looking forward to exploring what we can do with these new features and seeing what we come up with. I know @tavares is stoked about this, I certainly am.
If you’re curious what kinds of new forum features there are check out meta.discourse.org, we are running the latest Discourse, up from pre-1.0.
After reading @Moors7 's post, I checked my own trust level, too and now I’m only “Regular” and my post count has been reset too.
Yesterday I had well over 2.000 (All), but now only 960 or so - I guess this is due to the fact that previously “All” counted direct replies, likes and possibly mentions/quotes as well, while the new one seems only to show my own.
Addition: Despite being “downgraded” to “Regular” I still see the “Lounge” section, which was only visible for “Leader” and above.
Not an actual problem, but more of an inconvenience: could you perhaps change the sorting order of the messages inbox? Athough I greatly appreciate the “welcome to Spark” message every time I open it, that’s sadly not the one I’m looking for, most of the time
Yes, you can bookmark them, You have to click the three little dots next to the flagging symbol, and then click the bookmark item. Also, your previously starred topics can now be found under the bookmarked items. You can access those when you click your profile picture in the top right corner, and select ‘bookmarks’, or click the relevant button on your profile page.
