We just finished maintenance work on the site. The search index and cache are being rebuilt, so the site will be a little slower than usual for a day or so and search won't be fully functional for about 24 hours while the site is re-indexed. If you notice any other issues, please post a comment here.
Thanks,
John
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On trying to access the http://portableapps.com it is still displaying the message "PortableApps.com Will Be Right Back..."
Looks fine to me.
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Try reloading and clearing your cache.
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Reloading does it for me, too. I got the text from Twitter that the site was back up, and still got the "be right back" page, but a reload sorted it. No need to mess with the cache here but of course, do that if a simple reload doesn't sort it.
Not liking the new forum icons, but I'll get over it. New always seems weird at first.
Those are the default Drupal icons. It happened the last time the site was upgraded as well.
Our custom ones just hadn't been loaded yet.
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The shiny Icons are gone. I guess its because you updated Drupal?
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The tracker's working well, viewing/replying to threads is working OK, browsing the site is working OK too. As others have mentioned, the icons are changed on the forums, but that's not a big deal.
Just out of curiosity, what maintenance was done on the site?
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
I did a full rebuild of the Drupal system files and a table by table review and update of all structures to ensure we're on Drupal 6.15 properly. Also cleaned out several old module tables and module settings from the database.
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"Scheduled" is as good an answer as any. Not to contradict, but merely to add to what John said, you wouldn't believe the mess a website makes until you run one. Like registry issues necessitate portable apps on a computer, there are all kinds of messes made on the server by web sites that ultimately lead to slowdowns.
An SQL database logs *everything*, so that takes up space. Unless you really need it, it's a good idea to delete all but the most recent one. It's been a few years, and I was running Invision (IPB 2.x, PHP 4.x, I forget what MySQL), not Drupal, so some stuff would necessarily be different. (And by .x I mean "I forget", LOL.) Also, like you can defrag your registry to boost its performance ever so slightly, you can do similar maintenance on a site's database, which is where search optimization etc. comes in.
It's easy for the forum members to come back after a "scheduled maintenance" and see nothing new and assume as much, but it's actually a big deal. So I always tried to do something for the community, like add a new game to the Arcade module, or at the very least upgrade a module to its latest version. Something I could show for the hour or two the site was down.