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Site domain update

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The current site configuration is such that the forum is visible either at the domain "forum.questionablequesting.com", or at "questionablequesting.com". These show identical content, but carry separate logins and other cookies.

This was basically accidental and causes some minor headaches, so it will now change. Shortly, the server will be updated so that "forum.questionablequesting.com" is the canonical domain, and links to "questionablequesting.com" redirect to it. If you are browsing through "questionablequesting.com", you may need to log in again. Thereafter, the site should function as normal. The update will happen at 11:00 PM EDT today, i.e. about half an hour from now.

Behind the scenes, we are also switching reverse proxies (to caddy from nginx). Please report any issues with site performance or stability under this thread.
 
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alethiophile said:
Shortly, the server will be updated so that "forum.questionablequesting.com" is the canonical domain
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It's such an incredibly minor and petty thing, but I'm still weirdly happy that my go-to became the default instead of the reverse. :V

Makes me feel like I was right about something entirely pointless, which is the best and most satisfying kind of thing to be right about.
 
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Shinichi07 said:
Will there be any downtime for the switch over Or is it the type of quick update where if we're already on "forum.questionablequesting.com" will we won't even notice the change at all?
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Dev here (not from QQ, IRL dev), we did recently this at work so I can say from experience that unless something really bad happens you, as a normal user, shouldn't even notice a change.
 
I was wondering why it showed the login screen when I clicked on a story link last week. Now it makes sense the user that made the link was using the other QQ lol. And like someone said above It feels nice to know I'm using the canon/winner of the parallel sites.

Edit: Also it could just be my old computer or leftover cookies, but I got a few error 502 when reloading pages for a few minutes after the switch/update and the site was slow to load at the same time, but it seems its fine now. Maybe it was just from people on the non forum side logging in.
 
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Vanbers said:
It's such an incredibly minor and petty thing, but I'm still weirdly happy that my go-to became the default instead of the reverse. :V

Makes me feel like I was right about something entirely pointless, which is the best and most satisfying kind of thing to be right about.
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Same. I looked at my URL and said 'Nice.' Now I can feel superior to the people who used the forumless url. They are now going to use my way, cuz it's right way. >:3
 
All the timestamps are completely busted for me, just showing "later_today_at_x". Also in Firefox it is constantly trying to load something (I guess a connection isn't going through?) - while the page mostly loads, on the tab it has that throbber going from side to side constantly until I hit the stop button. Additionally the reply box doesn't show up until I hit the stop loading page button.

Edit: and literally just after I posted this the timestamps started working again, and all of the pages fully loaded.
 
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Super appreciate it! It was super annoying how sometimes links sent me to the version that I wasn't logged into. Excellent work on fixing that.
 
Nice. It's always kind of annoying when someone posts a www link in a thread and I have to copy it and replace www with forum.
 
Huh? I didn't noticed anything. I was not booted out or anything.

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