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Server Test In Progress

Posted on September 16, 2009 by The Ocean State Republican

pleasestandbyWe are currently testing the redirect coming from our old “oceanstaterepublican.com” domain.

As you may know, we’ve had some “problems” with our old site, which necessitated the disconnection of our old server and domain, the creation of the new site. If this doesn’t cause a server crash, then we’ll deem the test a success and will keep the old domain’s forwarder enabled for your convenience.

By the way, if you have us bookmarked, we strongly suggest using “oceanstaterepublican.org” instead. Also, please update your RSS or Atom feed with the new .org address. Thank you.

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Site Status Report

Posted on September 13, 2009 by The Ocean State Republican

undrkunstrukson1The “new” OSR is now largely functional, but we’re not done yet.

We are still working on some background stuff related to the ability for visitors such as yourself to leave comments. The comment preview function is currently not working properly, so just type what you want to type in the first time around and you should be okay.

While you as a human, non-robotic visitor should be able to comment on our posts, you cannot currently “register” to comment. This is actually intentional. We’re trying to see if the comment moderation software will let “unregistered” users comment, without holding their comment in the moderation queue. If it doesn’t let you post your comment immediately, don’t take it the wrong way … we still like you.

We are also in the midst of recreating the “blogroll,” so if you see any obvious omissions, it just means we haven’t gotten around to adding a particular link yet. We’ll get around to it soon enough.

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Testing in Progress

Posted on September 12, 2009 by The Ocean State Republican

Types_of_nuclear_testingThe “new” OSR blog is pretty close to fully functional, so why not help us test it out a little?

[Try to] leave a comment or two. Let’s see if it treats you like a blacklisted spammer, or as an old friend. You should not have to register in order to leave a comment. Comment moderation is almost entirely automated… except when it isn’t.

Have some fun with our new super cool Ajax-powered instantaneous “live search” capability. This is something we never could have made work on our old site. On the upper-right side of the page, just “type” in something and “wait” — just like it says. Unfortunately, there still isn’t a ton of archival information to actually search through.

Sift through “older posts” … of course, right now, that means last week’s posts. In the upper-center of the page you should see the word “Older” with a few arrows. Click it and see what happens. Press “Trim” and see what it does.

We are still working on the ShareThis function at the bottom of each post. It appears to work fine with Firefox. However, with Internet Explorer, not so well. Of course, it’s almost certainly Microsoft’s fault, not ours.

Other than that, we’re still adding in things like outgoing links to other sites, and well as adding basic information about the site. Since there is still so much to do, we have to prioritize.

More to come, so stay tuned!

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Welcome Back!

Posted on September 12, 2009 by The Ocean State Republican

openAfter approximately 4 weeks offline, we are still working on reconstructing The Ocean State Republican after a very catastrophic failure of, well, we’re still not quite sure. The important thing is: WE’RE BACK!

Please note that the primary domain of the “new” The Ocean State Republican is now at http://oceanstaterepublican.org , as opposed to at “.com” so, please update any old bookmarks for us that you may have, as well as any RSS or Atom feeds.

Thank you for your patronage. Stay tuned for more!

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The OSR | The Work Begins Anew…

Posted on September 9, 2009 by The Ocean State Republican

openAfter approximately 4 weeks offline, we are still working on reconstructing The Ocean State Republican after a very catastrophic failure of, well, we’re still not quite sure.

Between the PHP and the MySQL, as well as sifting through the code of nearly 40 plugins, as well as digging through layers upon layers of undecipherable blather, we have managed to more or less isolate the problem, but alas are unable to directly fix it.

The problem seems to have been triggered by a server upgrade to the latest version of PHP by our hosting company. While there was obviously no malevolent intent on their part, this well-intentioned action, meant to enhance security, as well as speed, resulted in multiple fatal software conflicts, which likely had to do with the many old plugins, as well as older code which we had been running with occasional, though not serious problems, for that last several years.

As a result, although we still have a back-up of the huge archive of all previous The Ocean State Republican posts (which are stored on a MySQL database), we are unable to reintegrate it with the latest version of PHP and WordPress at this time.

However, as “every frown is just a smile turned upside down,” we are taking this — we hope unique — opportunity to bring you a “new and improved,” as well as a much more secure OSR. We hope the final product will be much more user friendly, as well as far quicker loading … among other things.

Please note that the primary domain of the “new” The Ocean State Republican is now at http://oceanstaterepublican.org , as opposed to at “.com”. This allows us to be able to access some files from the old site, as well as to continue working at reintegrating some of the content from the old site into this “new” blog in the future.

Thank you for your patronage. Stay tuned for more!

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