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CloudFlare cleared up their issues, so the site's back up!

Cloudflare is having issues at the moment, so the site is down (along with other sites). No ETA on when it'll be fixed, but Cloudflare is aware and working on issues. www.cloudflarestatus.com

Site is back up.

As of 3am ET, the site is down, says there is not a valid SSL certificate. Frimble the developer has been pinged about this.

Site came back up 11:31pm ET. According to frimble the AWS instance had stopped, so it was restarted.

Site's still down for unknown reasons, frimble has been pinged, will have an update when there's more to report. Thanks for your patience!

Cite appears to be down as of 8:12pm ET, looking into.

Site is back up, we're looking into what happened.

The site is down. Of course it happened during a gap when no was working on the site or had access to a phone, hence the late response. Frimble is now looking into the issue, thanks for your patience!

Update to why site was down: Turns out it was a problem when updating ssl certificates and no one was near an actual computer at the time, so it was matter of getting home to fix it. There's a thread on MetaTalk about all this: metatalk.metafilter.com/26660/Note-a...

Site should be up for everyone, will posts some details when more is known.

Okay things should be back. Apologies for delay, frimble was not a home when site went down, had to travel back to get in front of a computer. Beware the dangers of going outside! :) Will post when we have a better understanding of why things went down.

Site down, reasons unknown, frimble checking into.

Things are relatively stable for now. Here's an update from Interim Board President Rhaomi about what's been causing the slowdowns and what steps we're taking to mitigate them going forward. metatalk.metafilter.com/26627/Metafi...

Site has been slow most of the day, apologies! Frimble is taking a look.

Site back up to speed as of 1:40pm ET. AI bots were having a field day.

Site is running slow, developer pinged, bear with us!

Site currently seems to be down, working on it!

Yes, there was brief hiccup last night at midnight ET as the site SSL certification expired. It was fixed by 12:17am ET

Oh, hey, just what we need: cupcakeninja has made a post for lists of "classic novels that bring the laughs." www.metafilter.com/206480/Funny...

Happy Turkey Day, y'all!

There are things out on the internet that will make you gasp with wonder and joy. This is one of them!

Supporting the Vulnerable ... Right person, right time, right place, right thread: In Ask Metafilter, Migrantology expertly answers a question about donating for legal aid to immigrants to California. ask.metafilter.com/383221/Where...

Rumple has posted Antwerp's Plantin-Moretus Museum collection of 14,000 woodblock prints, now online as Public Domain / CC 0 high resolution TIFF images with tags and search capabilities. We stan the lumpy grumpy fish. www.metafilter.com/206452/The-m...

Discussing Slate's 25 Most Important Recipes of the Past 100 Years bestof.metafilter.com/2024/11/time...

"Your sock is hiding in the dryer outside of eyesight" ... Another story of librarian heroes. bestof.metafilter.com/2024/11/The-...

Flagged as fantastic! Or as kristi says, "an absolutely marvelous paragon of a post": joannemerriam's magnificent latest roundup of more than 50 new and forthcoming small press books. 📖❣️ www.metafilter.com/206363/For-h...

"like a real life version of a spy thriller (art & science history edition)" — comment by Mefi member Ausamor Kattullus has posted about the mysteries of the portrait of Francis Williams, brilliant Black Jamaican polymath and member of the Newtonian inner circle www.metafilter.com/206371/Its-a...

Just over here enjoying some traditional Irish music, how's your day going? bestof.metafilter.com/2024/11/A-bi...

Community member condour75 has done a neat thing that puts your life in a movie, sort of! Check it out!

Who are MetaFilter's BlueSky favorites? ask.metafilter.com/383055/Who-a...

" I remember this old paperback in my old used bookstore where Greek or Roman voyagers end up in America and meet the Mayans ... " In Ask Metafilter, suburbanbeatnik is looking for a particular hard-to-find DAW paperback from the 1970s with cool cover art ask.metafilter.com/383114/Looki...

The Beep Boop is coming from inside the house! With a decent local GPU and some free open source software you can try 'open source' LLM models entirely offline: Lenie Clarke has a big ol' post on "Homebrew LLMs and Open Source Models" www.metafilter.com/206348/Homeb...

"still obscure and easily misunderstood ..." dhruva posted the Paris Review's Rhythmical Lines about Polish artist Wacław Szpakowski's "series of labyrinthine geometrical abstractions, each one produced from a single continuous line." www.metafilter.com/206282/A-line

Testing, testing, is this thing on? Does it serve beans?!