Recent updates on the New Caprice website!

Recent updates on the New Caprice website

This page details the most recent changes/additions/enhancements made to the overall New Caprice website.


  • 7/1/24, 8:15 pm EDT - The forum is temporary down. We were having issues with an extension and in trying to get it to operate correctly for some reason it has stalled the board. I've requested a restore from the period right before it was enabled, hopefully this will cure the issue & we'll be back up & running. UPDATE 10:45 pm EDT - we're back and running in full service, our webhost just reloaded from the last system backup atound 6 PM today and it wiped out the offending code. All is once again well.
  • 5/31/24 4:00 PM EDT - I have reopened the NewCaprice Forum section to guest read access. Our maintenance activities are complete enough to allow for the additional read traffic. In Navy terms, "Operating as before".
  • 5/23/24 12:00 PM EDT - The developer is working on the system upgrades and has encountered an unexpected error condition, the forum system is hard DOWN since around 11 AM EDT. We're working on restoring service at this time, no duration of outage known currently. UPDATE 5/23/24, 10 PM EDT - Forum system returned to service a bit before 1 PM today. The developer isolated the problem to one extension module. We replaced it with a slightly earlier version and it's now working fine. We are on the bleeding edge of progress for sure! Good news here is that if we get the updates all done and verified 100% operational for a few days, then we may be able to re-open guest read access to the forums a few days sooner.
  • 5/18/24 - Our developer is finishing the pending system upgrades while we're running in restricted service mode. We've upgraded three of our extension modules and still have several to go, but this is a good maintenance interval before we open the gates back up. Speaking of which, right now I'm targeting the June 1 timeframe to re-instate the guest read access on our forums without an account. I've been told there's a lot of unhappy people out there that their complementary read access was restricted on our site. Well, the information is still available free of charge, you just have to take 3 minutes of time and make a forum account to access it. Once you pass validation then everything is as it was before, you just have to execute a simple login to access the site. Now I'm not sure how much you've read our updates, but the bot assault we recently came under was so intense that it completely crashed our system at one point with over 500 instances of one particular bot operating on us at once hydrosucking our content to train someone's new AI system. And while this was going on, after we restored service we still had two minute plus latency delays before page refreshes. Folks this is not 1981 and you're not logging into a system that's running 1200 baud modems. Our problems were dragging down an entire commercial-grade shared web server with unhappy paying customers being a major result. So, sometimes you have a bitter pill to swallow for the good of the whole. It was either take the action we did when we did or DOWN THE WHOLE FORUM SYSTEM. There was no "easy" button in this situation unfortunately. I'm sure you would NOT like to try to query the Wayback machine for our content if I had no other option than to temporarily pull the switch. I think having to make a free account on a temporary basis is a minor trade-off in this isolated case for what NewCaprice brings to the table at no cost to you. Hopefully this is a one-off instance of worst-case problem convergence and after June 1 it's business as usual. But, we will see once the floodgates are back open!
  • 5/08/24 11:30 PM EDT - OK, our website and our forum system are both back in operation. We have been moved to a new server array & data center location, this provides MUCH more capacity and speed then we had before. We will continue to operate in restricted guest access mode until such time as the Staff and Host Manager feels we have a reliable system, as there is still work to do behind the scenes. We must also prove out & stress the system for as yet undetected bugs. We will be diligently be working on catching up on our validations ASAP. We were a bit bombarded all at once, and then the server transition was started right in the middle of all that. Very frustrating for both us and you as the users but we survived!
  • 4/29/24 - Forum system is restored to Status Quo Ante immediately before we experienced a massive latency issue starting around the 22nd of April. We were under unauthorized access by multiple multiple Bots from at least two major Internet providers using a swarm technique to extract information from our system. We were finally able to place the bots into a Persona Non Grata status and they have seemed to terminate their assault. Unfortunately in order to do this we have had to restrict guest access to our forums for at least the time being. Anyone wanting access to the forum system will now need to file for a NewCaprice forum account and be validated to receive access.
  • 4/26/24 3:30 PM EDT - Forum system is hard down, reason under investigation. UPDATE 4/26/24 10:15 EDT - Forum system is back up. Root cause for our outage is still being investigated.


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