Site Outage and Server Issues

So this is a nice thing to wake up to at 6 in the morning today. My server provider rebooted our servers last night (all of the servers including RoleplayRepublic's) to apply security patches but not everything started back up properly. In fact, so many things broke that I ended up just getting all new bigger servers to replace the old ones. Still, everything broke in such a spectacular fashion that I have to rethink how to structure the application to ensure this doesn't happen again.

Site layout should be fixed for all of you now. If it isn't, do a hard refresh with your browser or if that still doesn't work, delete your browser cache. Notifications should be up and running again. This is one of the things that broke in unexpected ways and will be one of the issues I'll be taking a look at this week.

Some members mentioned that some stories that they're expecting in some sections or lists are not there but I'm not finding these instances. If you have an example of this happening, please let me know in the comments by posting the story url and the urls of the sections you expect it to be in but isn't.

Others have also mentioned that their subscriber counts don't seem to be correct to them but I've checked these cases also and I haven't found any evidence of bad subscriber counts (everything matches up). If you suspect that your subscriber counts are off, let me know in the comments with the url of the story you want me to check and I'll confirm the counts.

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SyrineKarouiAngel
#1
Hello! What's with the new restriction in the chapters? I get an error while updating: input value must be between 3 and 2047 characters :(
myownlilbubble
#2
Hi Jason!

Not sure if my problems are related but I noticed that I had been unsubscribed to alot of fics...I only noticed when I didn't receive any updates from a particularly regular author...another issue was when I write new comments to fics that I am already subscribed to...the posted comments will always be truncated and only show two lines...even if I commented a wall of text to that fic.

Appreciate the help rendered.
eunhaecupcake
#3
haha I think ever since the time the site was out and everyone's changes pretty much disappeared.... this seems like nothing compared to that. Anyways thank you for always checking on the site and working on it, Jason. ^^
alinarose94 #4
can you check on the featured fics too? the same fic has been featured for the past 3 days...
skylla321 #5
Set up covers give an invalid message. Will those be fixed any time soon? Thanks for getting things sorted out. I paid for the Gold to help the site out.
kpopluvr18
#6
Thank you for always being on top of things, Jason! We really appreciate all of the hard work on your end to keep AFF running smoothly ^.^
ann1914
#7
Thank you for the quick changes, Jason! I was so confused last night but glad to see everything's up and running again. The other users below already addressed the issues that I've come across but if I see anything, I'll be sure to comment as well.
WhatOnceWas #8
Thank you Jason <3
wonpokemon
#9
Oh wow that !! Hope everything runs smoothly later on. Thanks!
stephhh-
#10
Was just about to post the same with the time
But I'm so glad the layout is back to normal, thank you so much!
Suhyo07
#11
The time?? It reads undefined NaN, NaN NaN:NaN:NaN
sekaii
#12
Setting an image for a cover of the story seems to give, 'invalid image' when it is a direct link.

I think that's another issue. Cover images can not be used.
luv_kero
#13
It looks like time stamps are completely broken right now. Otherwise, I'm not seeing any other issues since the chapter statistics graphs are showing up again. Thanks for the update! We really appreciate it. :)
MissIdash
#14
The time seems off on the blog post (about 5 hours ahead of me, so 10-ish hours ahead of you), but that's all I've noticed. The notifications seem to be running correctly again and RPR also seems to be up and running, even though the servers died on me five hours ago.