Brian
Joined: Feb 25, 2006
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Nov 10 2015 09:05 PM
We have one more upgrade to perform. It should take about half an hour. I'll do it Wednesday evening around 6 or 7 pm CST. The site will be unavailable in that time. Thanks for your patience!
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Badger
Joined: Nov 16, 2013
Posts: 4536
Wisconsin
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Posted on Nov 11 2015 05:44 AM
Thanks Brian for all your hard work. The work being done by the cert provider looks interesting.
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
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ArtS
Joined: May 09, 2008
Posts: 1339
Isle of Kent, MD
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Posted on Nov 11 2015 08:34 PM
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Brian
Joined: Feb 25, 2006
Posts: 19278
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Nov 11 2015 09:08 PM
Lost Internet tonight so I'll have to do the upgrade tomorrow.
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Badger
Joined: Nov 16, 2013
Posts: 4536
Wisconsin
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Posted on Nov 11 2015 09:21 PM
Brian wrote:
Lost Internet tonight so I'll have to do the upgrade tomorrow.
Probably that lovely wx that floated by our neck of the woods.
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
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Brian
Joined: Feb 25, 2006
Posts: 19278
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Nov 12 2015 06:28 PM
Going to take the site down shortly for an upgrade.
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Nov 12 2015 07:29 PM
We are back on an even faster hosting platform.
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Brian
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Posts: 19278
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Nov 12 2015 07:31 PM
Brian wrote:
I think I'm going to get an SSL certificate from these guys:
https://letsencrypt.org/
It looks like they go into an open beta program the first week in December. I didn't want to wait that long. But I can always come back to them once they get up and running.
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Nov 16 2015 08:33 PM
The one remaining problem area for going secure is the "submit news" feature. Users can still hot-link to photos hosted on non-secure sites there. So I've been thinking about revamping the news application:
- Make it accept Markdown input just like the forums. So now I don't have to support, and users don't have to learn, two different ways to submit content to SG101.
- Have the image upload and hot-linking abilities in "submit news" just like when creating a new forum post / topic.
- Instead of using the "comments" system for news stories, a forum thread will automatically be created for each news story. The story can be discussed in the forums, which will give greater visibility to the news stories.
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Brian
Joined: Feb 25, 2006
Posts: 19278
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Nov 26 2015 10:55 AM
New news system as described above is now live.
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it.
— Site dude - S3 Agent #202
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JONPAUL
Joined: Apr 29, 2010
Posts: 2468
Venice, CA
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Posted on Nov 26 2015 11:20 AM
Happy Thanksgiving Brian! And, appropriately enough on this traditional holiday, thanks so much for all you do for SG101! You, your creation and your continuing hard work are most appreciated!
— Insect Surfers
The Tikiyaki Orchestra
The Scimitars
Lords Of Atlantis
Fiberglass Jungle - Surf Radio
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Badger
Joined: Nov 16, 2013
Posts: 4536
Wisconsin
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Posted on Nov 26 2015 12:15 PM
JP already said it - we're so lucky to have you. Now go chow down & enjoy.
Salud!
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Nov 27 2015 12:04 PM
Thanks guys.
Just a heads up, I'll be taking the site down shortly for some more work. It will probably be intermittently available for the next few hours.
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Nov 27 2015 01:34 PM
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Nov 27 2015 01:42 PM
And here were are in Chrome on Android:
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Nov 27 2015 01:45 PM
So I've been wanting to do this for a few years. I've been thinking about how to do it for at least 1.5 years. And I started working on it seriously last January or so. Sorry it took so long!
If you see your browser complain about any SG101 pages that aren't secure, or have mixed content, please send me a link to the page as soon as you can. Thanks!
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Last edited: Nov 27, 2015 13:48:38
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Badger
Joined: Nov 16, 2013
Posts: 4536
Wisconsin
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Posted on Nov 27 2015 02:02 PM
AWESOME!!!
— Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel
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darrenk
Joined: Dec 19, 2010
Posts: 184
San Jose, CA
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Posted on Nov 27 2015 03:32 PM
Woot!
-Darren
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Brian
Joined: Feb 25, 2006
Posts: 19278
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Nov 27 2015 03:52 PM
Thanks for checking on that Darren!
BTW, I went with SSLMate for my certificate. They have a a command-line tool for buying & installing certificates and suggests the current best-practice SSL settings which gave us that "A" rating, above.
I'm finding a few mixed-content issues and fixing them. It looks like a small number of users have included non-secure images in their signatures and profiles. Once I determine how many users have done this I'll decide what to do. I'll probably just remove the images if the number is small.
— Site dude - S3 Agent #202
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homerhead
Joined: Mar 17, 2006
Posts: 530
Portland, OR
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Posted on Nov 27 2015 04:51 PM
Excellent work Brian - you never cease to amaze!
— Rick
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