In about 20 minutes (5:15 or so), Slog will be down so our hardworking tech team can update some behind-the-scenes stuff. It should be back online in about a half an hour (that’d be around 5:45) and it will look, for the most part, exactly the same. But the commenting function will be all new–it should be faster, better, and with a captcha to cut down on pesky spam. Hooray!

So when Slog disappears, don’t panic. Just go watch the puppies for about 30 minutes. And when you come back, you’ll see a new and improved Slog! (Sort of.)

Thank you for your patience while we continue to make Slog an enjoyable experience. We can’t do it without you.

Megan Seling is The Stranger's managing editor. She mostly writes about hockey, snacks, and music. And sometimes her dog, Johnny Waffles.

107 replies on “Don’t Panic!: Slog Will Be Offline for 30 Minutes While We Make a Few Changes”

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    For 441 years from the founding of the City, the Romans were satisfied with the use of whatever water they drew from the Tiber, from wells, or from springs. To this day springs are revered for their sanctity, and their water is thought to bring health to sick bodies. One thinks of the ancient springs of the Camenae, of the …, and of Juturna. There are now, however, nine aqueducts from which water converges into Rome. These are named Appia, Anio Vetus, Marcia, Tepula, Julia, Virgo, Alsietina (which is also called Augusta), Claudia, and Anio Novus.

  3. Gidge: I e-mailed the following to Megan earlier:

    Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:46:22 -0800
    From: me
    Subject: Slog: RSS feeds (both posts and posts’ comments) screwed
    To: Megan Seling – The Stranger

    Hi, Megan.

    I’ve been watching the Slog adjustments since yesterday afternoon (a little too closely, it seems, as I’ll never see another meat grinder the same).

    Others seem to be covering the new comment posting stuff pretty well (CAPTCHA *every* time is too much, Firefox [and others?] no longer recognize fields in order to pre-fill them, edits don’t stick, browsing back wreaks havok), but I wanted to bring to your attention the fact that RSS feeds don’t work now.

    The main feed: shows the latest post to be “County Budget Cuts Are Going to Hurt” (2008-11-11 16:02).

    Until yesterday’s changes, I could append “-c.xml” to any post’s URL in order to arrive at the URL for an RSS feed of comments for that post. Since then, requests for those feeds result in a 404 error from your HTTP server. For instance, was valid 24 hours ago, but is not now.

    Please, oh, please don’t make us repeatedly reload a Web page in order to follow comments. It’s just not practical compared to using a feed reader to drag a post over to my feeds column, adding “-c.xml”, then seeing a nice list of which comments I’ve read or not read in the same layout as the bajillion other feeds I follow.

  5. URIs enclosed in “angle brackets” (less than and greater than symbols) as they should be when including one in plain text (per W3C recommendation [1]) results in them being removed. For example:

    * without angle brackets: http://example.com/
    * with angle brackets:

    Not many people are aware of this recommendation (see relevant discussion on Brad Templeton’s blog [2]), but if you’re not going to allow HTML in comments, you should deal with plain text appropriately.

    References:

    [1]: http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/5.1_Wra…
    [2]: http://ideas.4brad.com/node/443

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