#notverysocial #administriviaNot Very Social will be bouncing up and down this evening (8/23/2018) while I install the 2.4.4 security update.
#notverysocial #administrivia Not Very Social is back up, updated to latest Mastodon, Ubuntu updated, lots of disk space recovered, oil changed, tire pressures checked, a little more wedge and a trackbar adjustment.
#notverysocial #administrivia Not Very Social will be going down for an upgrade this afternoon. Do not adjust your set. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. Known to cause rickets in laboratory mice.
#notverysocial we're back up (finally) on 2.4.1. Sorry for the extended downtime today, I got called away with some urgent family issues half way through building the new release. Only just got back home.

#notverysocial we're now running the latest 2.4.0 release. Congrats to @Gargron and the team on this, a lot of work under the hood and some useful user facing feature additions. For full details see:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.4.0

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#notverysocial announcement.

As I now feel confident enough that I can keep this instance running, backed up, and updated ... I've opened up registration, so we are now a fully fledged member of The Fediverse.

#notverysocial YAY! Victory is mine! I finally managed to get the new ElasticSearch container whipped into shape, so we're now running 2.3.0rc2, with full text searching of "your" toots (ones you've tooted, been mentioned in, favorited or boosted), which (IMHO) makes favoriting several orders of magnitude more useful. For any #mastoadmins who might be fighting with ES, here's the saga ...

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/6665

ElasticSearch in 2.3.0rc1, CPU max'ed and 500 error · Issue #6665 · tootsuite/mastodon

I installed 2.3.0rc1, uncommented the new es container in the docker-compose, and added the three ES_ lines to the .env.production. Everything built and restarted, but my CPU has been nailed at 100...

#notverysocial sorry guys, we're going to be bouncing up and down for a while, as I try to nail this elasticsearch issue down. On the bright side, once it's working we'll be able to full text search our toots (our own, ones we are mentioned in, and ones we have favourited or boosted).
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