AOL Journals: Magic Smoke

Wednesday, August 17, 2005
12:37:00 PM EDT
Hearing Liz Phair, Exille in Guyville Hi folks...the tech folks are still working on the Journals database, though it's mostly behind-the-scenes stuff, so you shouldn't be affected. (Except for Myrtle, the Journals main page display widget, who as previous noted, is still twice as much fun as before.)

Last night, however, we were seeing some problems associated with creating new Journals and entries, so the tech folks took down some of the database switchers last night for about twenty minutes so they could perform a "dump-and-load" on the database. This happened at about 10:30PM EDT last night, and fixed the problem.

Once all this database stuff gets sorted out, we will probably have a scheduled Journals outage to get everything up on the new hosts.  Not sure yet what day it will happen, but it will be in the early morning hours (starting about 3AM). I will post more information when I get it.

We're not aware of any major issues right now; please drop me a line if you're having trouble. Thanks. -- Joe


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• #3 Comment from robinngabster 
  8/18/05 7:11 AM | Permalink

  Hey Joe...is there any chance AOL might be working on giving us more color options when it comes to designing our journals? Patterns, backgrounds, graphics, etc? Robin
• #2 Comment from sepintx 
  8/17/05 9:58 PM | Permalink

  Thanks for the update Joe!
• #1 Comment from his1desire 
  8/17/05 2:31 PM | Permalink

  "We're not aware of any major issues right now; please drop me a line if you're having trouble."
  
  as always Joe .. the updates are very much appreciated, but a word of caution .. when asking for people to let you know if they are "having trouble", you should always qualify that statement with having "TROUBLE WITH AOL JOURNALS" hehe
  
  pamela