Miro Community Status

1.8.2 release pushed to production servers

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:00:55 -0400

Miro Community’s servers have been upgraded to use version 1.8.2 of the code, which:

Corrects a feed caching bug.
Fixes search feeds.
Syncs the front page and the popular videos page.
Speeds up feed imports.

… and more! This is the last micro release for 1.8; the next release, 1.9, is planned for mid-May. The main noticeable change here will be a new default theme. It’s still being developed, but we already love it and can’t wait to get it out to all of you!

Planned outage: 4/22/2012 0900 EDT

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:50:16 -0400

We’ll be doing some maintenance on the servers, as well as upgrading sites to the newly released Miro Community 1.8.2. Expected downtime is approximately 2 hours.

Service outage: 2012/2/17 10am EST

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:18:00 -0500

Our search backend crashed, resulting in errors on some sites/pages. We’re recovering the indexes now and will respond here when service is fully restored.

Update: service to all sites should be restored.

Service restored.

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:40:03 -0500

Service has been restored to all miro sites.

Sites down temporarily

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:17:44 -0500

Due to server issues, all mirocommunity sites are down temporarily. We’ll let you know when service is restored.

Listing pages may be blank for a while

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:49:37 -0500

We have moved to a new search engine to resolve issues with sorting on listing pages and to resolve some intermittent server errors on search index access. While we reindex your site content, there will be a period when the listing pages are blank. This will resolve itself.

Feed issues resolved take 2.

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:38:01 -0500

Although things were resolved on the code end, it turned out there were some server configuration issues preventing feed updates. These have been corrected and the backlog of imported videos is currently running.

Feed issues resolved

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:52:43 -0500

We are happy to announce that the issues with feed imports have been resolved; you should see any feeds that you have added recently start importing videos in the coming hours.

Feed update issues

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:05:51 -0500

The good news? The outages have subsided.

The bad news? We are having some issues with feeds not updating.

The good news? We know about it and are working to correct it. :-) We’ll post here when we do.

Intermittent outages

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:43:00 -0500

Following the 1.8 upgrade, we have been experiencing intermittent outages due to unexpected server loads. We are working to correct the issue.

1.8 upgrade complete

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:06:22 -0500

The update to 1.8 is complete! You may notice that certain video listing pages are blank; this is a temporary situation caused by some changes made in this upgrade; it will resolve itself. If you are still experiencing this issue in a day or so, let us know at support[at]mirocommunity.org.

What’s new in this release?

The biggest change that you’ll see is that adding feeds in the admin is now asynchronous. You will be able to add a feed, then continue working in the admin while the feed imports in the backend. This release also resolves issues with long-running feeds timing out, piling up, or blocking the progress of other feeds.

There have also been a number of non-user-facing improvements, especially related to making it easier for interested developers and community members to contribute to Miro Community. If you want to learn more, you can check out the code on github.

What’s coming in the next release?

We’re planning (and have been working on) a major overhaul of the admin to provide a smoother, cleaner user experience. Though these changes were originally slated for this release, we’ve pushed it back so that we can give you the feed import improvements sooner and so that we can focus on really polishing every angle of the admin improvements.

The next release will also feature an overhaul of the default Miro Community theme, changes to how custom themes are made, and improved documentation of how to make a custom theme. The next release will maintain backwards-compatibility for current custom themes, but we are planning to deprecate some aspects of how custom themes are currently set up so that we can provide better theming options in the future. This deprecation will take place over multiple releases in order to allow sites with custom themes to adjust to the changes.

If you have any questions or comments, contact questions[at]mirocommunity.org. We look forward to continuing to improve the service that we provide!

1.8 upgrade - take two! 1/31/12 21:30 EST

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:16:39 -0500

Last week, the release was postponed due to a severe bug that showed up at the last minute. We were able to successfully correct that bug and a few others, and today released version 1.8 of Miro Community. We will be upgrading the hosted sites starting at 21:30 EST; again, we don’t expect any downtime, but we will update this blog if any surprises pop up.

1.8 upgrade: 1/24/2012 21:30 EST

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:54:13 -0500

Later today we’ll be releasing Miro Community 1.8, and we’ll be upgrading the hosted sites starting at 21:30 EST. We don’t expect any downtime, but we’ll update this blog if anything unexpected happens.

Update 1/24/2011 21:36: due to a last-minute bug, the release has been postponed.

Maintenance: 12/13/2011 20:00 EST

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:56:07 -0500

Amazon is requesting that we reboot some of our servers for further maintenance, which will result in another small period of downtime. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

Maintenance: 12/12/2011 midnight EST

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:06:00 -0500

Due to maintenance by Amazon on our databases, there will be a small period of downtime this Monday morning.

Maintenance: 11-9-2011 8:30PM EST

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:54:49 -0500

We’re switching over to a new loadbalancer this evening. Hopefully this will occur without any downtime, but there may be a small period (less than 5 minutes) where sites are inaccessible.

We’ve had an outage with some of our sites. It affected older sites, as well as some with...

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:45:13 -0400

We’ve had an outage with some of our sites. It affected older sites, as well as some with custom domains. All sites should be up now.

Maintenance: 9/22/2011, 22:00 EDT

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:30:25 -0400

We will be performing some maintenance on the Miro Community servers starting around 10 PM Eastern. It may result in a minute of downtime.

12:05pm EDT Currently experiencing unexpected downtime on some newer sites. We are working to...

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:07:00 -0400

12:05pm EDT Currently experiencing unexpected downtime on some newer sites. We are working to alleviate the problem.

12:30pm We continue to have intermittent issues with some sites, and are working to fix the problem.

2:13pm EDT - We are currently experiencing problems with some older sites being overloaded...

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:14:28 -0400

2:13pm EDT - We are currently experiencing problems with some older sites being overloaded periodically. We are investigating the problem and taking steps to prevent it in the future.