Out of drydock

Well, that was fun. In a tear-one's-hair-out kind of way.

As you may have noticed, the site was down for about a full day. I broke it by fixing it. The nature of more complicated PHP/MySql platforms running on infrastructure that never stays the same means that when you want to add a new feature or adjust an old one, you run the risk of "version conflict." The issue that begat this latest round of repair was a mysterious database error that I could find no cause for. I decided to update the database to run on newer PHP. Probably fixed the error issue, but since it broke more of the site I couldn't tell for sure.

Anyway, in the end I upgraded everything, relaunched this ship from scratch, and if I've done it right, you all won't even notice anything is different. (Except anyone who might have signed up for updates through Feedrabbit. You all got spammed with the whole history of posts. Sorry about that.)

I know, though. Because I have less hair now.