RE: https://meow.social/@sofurry/115946999585839749

And we're back!

We will have a short downtime for some impromptu maintenance regarding the current errors.

Thanks for your patience!

#SoFurryServerMoveUpdate

#SoFurry is BACK ONLINE! 💥

That was the worst.softlaunch.ever because it was all over (Bluesky) town ;)

After many unforseen roadblocks we're now at a point where we feel comfortable releasing the next version of SoFurry to all of you!

The #beta label is still with us. We tried our best to sort out the biggest bugs & provide a solid base but work isn't done yet.

We're working on any upcoming issues ASAP but keep in mind that the entire SF team is made up from volunteers dedicating a big chunk of their own free time.

Please leave feedback/feature requests on the site! That's the best way for us to to prioritize future features and get a better feeling of what direction we want to take things.

Find the full announcement here: sofurry.com/news/arn9v1D9

Thank you for sticking with us ❤️

#SoFurryServerMoveUpdate

Merry Christmas everyone!

We have opened the site to all staff members for testing. We have two major items to fix and test still. However because it honestly doesn't make much sense to do a crunch right before new year's eve and then having to support launch issues, our tentative launch window is now the week of January 12th - 18th. This will also give us time to do more testing.

We know we said we're tentatively aiming to go live before the end of the year, but we'd rather fix those issues and get sufficient testing in first.

So it's not gonna happen before new year's eve sadly - but it's not a super long extra wait.

Sorry and thanks for your patience!

#SoFurryServerMoveUpdate

We fixed performance issues that caused long load times for users with lots of DMs. We're integrating systems to help diagnose performance issues more easily in the future. Submission analytics should now work across the site for all users, giving you insights into how popular your stories and art are with your audience. There's lots of things that have been fixed, like multi-factor logins always requiring users to log in every time, the SF2 submission URL redirect, adult content warning page - things that are small in scope but still important. It's not long now!

Hello everyone! This #SoFurryServerMoveUpdate took a bit longer but again it's a bit too much to put in one or two posts, so please check out the progress via the attached screenshot.

Thank you!

Hello everyone! This #SoFurryServerMoveUpdate is rather comprehensive because a lot happened, so we will share two screenshots instead. Overall good news!

Thanks for your patience. We're working on going online very soon again!

#SoFurryServerMoveUpdate

Work is underway on updating the web framework to the latest version. We had to switch our offsite backup to a different method as it was affecting read performance. We switched to an internal CI/CD pipeline runner, which means we stopped using external build infrastructure to save cost. The mod UI is making good progress and some of the missing functions our moderators will need are being implemented right now. And of course lots and lots of fixes for annoying things, like layout snafus, SF2 submmission import fixes and more!

#SoFurryServerMoveUpdate

We had a new volunteer developer join the team, and work is progressing on bugfixes and general things that just need to be done before going live. Our new off-site server is now syncing data which will take some time, but does not have to be 100% done before opening the doors. Exam season and work did us in but we hope you'll forgive us for taking a bit longer still.

Progress is still being made, so stay tuned for more updates soon.

Thank you!