The patch is ready to go; but in a last second decision to give myself a safety net I decided to re-script a few things just in case something goes wrong no code is lost.
Everything should be good- data integrity and reliability is my top priority so I thank everyone for their patience as I ensure this is done correctly and reliably. I am doing my best to have the site up and running ASAP after I finalize the maintenance scripts to be nondestructive.
I am feeling the pain of the site being down as well as I use it to host my personal code and I use it heavily at work!
Thanks again for your patience, I’m trying to be as transparent and communicative as possible in this matter.
I’m pretty sure the maintenance patch is complete but it is very late here on the East Coast and my eyes are a bit bleary- so I’m going to wait til the morning to double check the patch and then roll it to the live site when I’m sure it covers all the issues I discovered during my audit.
Thanks again for your continued patience, @danosphere.
Tried to fire the site back up just now but the system was still experiencing issues. I’ll iron out the final issues and flip the switch back on tomorrow night, I can’t bring the site back online while this duplication bug exists; thank you for your patience.
As always, if there is critical code you need access to I can always directly access it for you while in a maintenance period- just tweet at me, @danosphere. I’m here to help!
Updates are taking a bit longer to than anticipated, we’ll be back online within 24hrs. Thanks for your patience.
*** STATUS UPDATE 1/9 @ 10:43pm EST ***
Another quick update, still working on the maintenance. Hoping to be back online ASAP. Possibly by tomorrow night at the latest. Sorry for the inconvenience while I work to resolve these issues. Thanks for your patience.
Currently performing some additional cleanup and maintenance during off-peak hours tonight. The site should be back up and humming tomorrow AM (Eastern Standard Time).
If you need immediate assistance I can be reached at anytime via @danosphere. Thanks for your patience as Snipt.org continues to mature into a stable, scalable code hosting platform.
You should now find that almost all of the spam on Snipt.org has been removed and it should remain that way. I will be working hard over the New Year’s holiday to add additional user-curation and reporting tools so that Snipt.org can really become a solid community repository for code.
Thanks for your patience, those spammers are nasty ones!
I’m are pausing the remainder of the cleanup efforts until tomorrow, the site will be back at full performance shortly.
I’m in the process of cleaning all the spam out of the Snipt.org database.
The cleaning process may lead to decreased server performance during the maintenance window from 9p-12a EST 12/22/2012.
Please pardon the performance hit while I remove all of these garbage snipts, this will result in faster overall performance once the cleanup is complete.
Thanks for your patience.
