I promised an update before tomorrow, and there’s some good news.
Here’s the site update thread from Sunday, if you want more details.
WordPress Search plugin – Yay!
The new code for the Search plugin was installed late this afternoon, and the site is being indexed as we speak. The graph of Search plugin activity – before and after the new code was installed – is like night and day. In a good way. So I believe that one is resolved. Happy dance.
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The Custom Twitter Feed plugin – Boo!
I gave you a heads up that I would need to turn on this trouble-making plugin on at some point for the plugin developers to see the problem in action. I turned it on today for them as requested, and we lived with the site slowness for most of the day, and they never f-ing looked at it.
We’ll get it figured out. But that plugin will stay off until next week. In case you missed the thread yesterday, that’s why you don’t see John’s twitter feed in the sidebar.
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Impossibly slow site loading on some older iPads, sometimes – Better? Or not?
My suspicion was that the WordPress search plugin issue was affecting iPads, particularly older iPads, more than other devices.
Now that the new code for the search plugin is in, we should know right away whether the two issues were related. I know I can count on you to let me know either way, right?
If it’s not resolved, I’ll be in contact with the folks who offered to help with testing. NEXT WEEK.
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Ads turned off until Thursday!
John has graciously agreed to turn off all the ads until Thursday. So we get to be ad-free until then!
Open thread.
Baud
Thank you, WG.
NotMax
But- but- how else will folks without ad blockers learn of the heartbreak of toenail fungus?
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schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Balloon Juice should be renamed Water Balloon Juice.
TS (the original)
Thank you WaterGirl.
mvr
Thanks for all of your work WaterGirl. Over quite some time too!
Intensive Porpoises
“Older” iPad here—it does seem to load quicker now.
Auntie Anne
Thank you for all you do, WaterGirl. And John, thank you for turning off the ads temporarily
Mary G
Love that the ads are turned off, I’ve been getting Republican ads like crazy on my phone, including advice from Pete Fucking Wilson about keeping Uber and Lyft drivers free from those pesky benefits like sick pay and healthcare.
Ohio Mom
First time it’s loaded immediately since I could remember — iphone 7.
It was loading so slowly I was opening BJ and then going off to another site to while away the time. So huge improvement.
Whew! Hooray! Thanks!
cain
Im willing to give some kittens being naughty and cute pics during the election day. Let me know! These kittens are ready for their first election :D
https://imgur.com/a/HYq0wu0
Immanentize
Mille grazie!
NotMax
Forgot about the time change and flipped over to MSNBC to see if Maddow had moved past a 45 minute introduction to a story and got (ugh) Chris Hayes.
Luckily the return to last channel button is in a convenient place on the ol’ remote.
Elizabelle
Thank you WaterGirl.
WaterGirl
@mvr: Our one year anniversary of the new site is coming up on Nov 13.
WaterGirl
@Ohio Mom: I hope that continues! Let me know if it doesn’t.
David ?Booooooo!? Koch
@NotMax:
Reminds me of Delta House’s reaction when they first see Flounder (video)
Gin & Tonic
@WaterGirl: About time for a new UI, doncha think?
zhena gogolia
Thanks for all your work.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
Time to dispose of the bubble gum and baling wire held in reserve from the old site to free up storage space.
:)
jl
” John has graciously agreed to turn off all the ads until Thursday. ”
This blog has paid for itself already? I did not know that.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: I’m afraid I don’t have an emoji to accurately convey my response to that!
cain
@cain:
hmmm.. my photo did not take.. Useless!
N M
Thx WaterGirl. What would the ‘take’ be through Wednesday? Perhaps some of us not tapped out from the campaigns can hit the tip jar.
Patricia Kayden
WaterGirl
@N M: I think that’s classified information. Only John knows that.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
A candidate?
Roger Moore
@N M:
I don’t know about you, but I have a recurring monthly donation. It makes me feel less guilty about using an ad blocker.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Nope, that’s not the one.
edit: Since he was teasing, I need one with more nuance, I think.
WaterGirl
@Roger Moore: Does that one come in on the 5th of every month? I think that’s about when when John usually pays for the hookers and blow. :-)
WaterGirl
@NotMax: I would not want to jinx anything.
stinger
WaterGirl, you are amazing.
Mike J
It always amuses me when people say “6 million comments! How could a computational device ever handle such loads!?!” Back in ye oldene dayes we knew how to optimize. Now nobody bothers until they have to. Now they spend their time water skiing and collecting stamps instead of optimizing indicies.
Mousebumples
What kind of internals is Cornyn seeing? I figured our chances of beating him were similar to beating Mitch.
Dare to dream, but I might need to stock up on popcorn. Schadenfreude moments ahead?
WaterGirl
@stinger: What a nice thing to say!
WaterGirl
@Mousebumples: I would love to see him gone!
GeriUpNorth
it’s loading faster on my old iPad. Ready for the onslaught of comments tomorrow!
J R in WV
It is loading faster.
I’ve been seeing the Text-Only comment tool a whole lot lately. Sad!
I have always hated it, even tho I know HTML pretty well. A tool from 2003…
cain
water girl has already approved all of you sending pet pics to her to post during the election day. Please mail watergirl at mconnnellfuckingsucks.com
WaterGirl
@GeriUpNorth: Happy to be hearing good things from the iPad folks.
WaterGirl
@J R in WV: Once Trump and the election stop draining me of all motivation, I will get back to being more persistent about getting resolution to things like that, and the back arrow.
Mary G
Also, to WaterGirl: I managed to take one mediocre photo of one cat and may have managed to upload to your dropbox. If it’s the black cat it’s Chenille, if it’s the grey one it’s Shiloh. All my tech is misbehaving, and I’ve trying to get this done all day between phone banking and fending off nine zillion texts from campaigns asking for more money. I finally figured out that I can text back stop. Feel free to not use the photo (if it’s Shiloh, it’s the same one as last year), and I will try to get a camera that wasn’t manufactured in 2008 and take photos for next year.
Nola78
@Ohio Mom: I wish I could say the same. Still having loading problems with my iPhone 6. So good for you.
mrmoshpotato
Cool. Thanks WaterGirl.
And we can manually check Cole’s Twitter for his yelling about the Rethuglicans, etc. :)
WaterGirl
@Mary G: If you want to take photos with your camera, if you send me an email message I can give you my cell number and you can send them by email from your cell.
Even if they aren’t the best photos ever, at least they get to be in the calendar! :-)
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: SAD! Wouldn’t have happened if those of you surrounded by big water, ocean water got with the program!
Obligatory
Patricia Kayden
Excellent thread on Trump admin’s corruption.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: That gave me an idea.
I just put a link to John’s twitter in the sidebar. That will work until next week when we work on that issue.
WaterGirl
@Patricia Kayden: Is there still an office of special counsel?
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: You create amazing mazes for paper placemats. ??♥️
Yarrow
@Mousebumples:
Not good ones. I mean for him/Republicans in general. I’ve said it before, but when the TX Supreme Court Chief Justice has to run ads telling people to vote for him “and all Republican justices on the Supreme Court” things are looking bleak for them.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: Am I supposed to know what that means? :-)
Yarrow
@Mary G: I’m worried about his. I’m going shopping tomorrow and Ben & Jerry’s was on my list. I don’t have enough in my freezer.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: Amazing.
mrmoshpotato
@Yarrow: Just rolling in ice cream money I see.
Store brand Chocolate Moose Tracks! FTW!
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: Now I get it, you are mocking me! :-)
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Did someone say Amazing?
:)
WaterGirl
It must be time for me to go to bed. It’s hard to believe that tomorrow is almost here. My most fervent prayer to the universe: please let it go well.
frosty
@WaterGirl: I’ll second that! And while we’re on the subject I’ve been seeing a lot of new rotating tags in the last week or so. Thanks for that too!
WaterGirl
@frosty: Thank you.
I love the new rotating tags, and I have been surprised that people don’t seem to be noticing them. I am always happy when I see them!
WaterGirl
This is annoying. Even Booman does it:
Why can’t it be framed this way: How to Tell if BIDEN Is Going To Win Pennsylvania
and the reference to Hillary Clinton and whether Biden could “suffer the same fate” just makes me want to smack Booman.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
That’s what happens when one buys article composing AI at the 99¢ store.
:)
Yarrow
@mrmoshpotato: I love Chocolate Moose Tracks. Yum. I just have some fav B&J’s flavors and given the stress of the day I’m going to indulge.
WaterGirl
@Yarrow: I think I’ll put up an election night desserts and indulgences thread tomorrow night. People can come up for air in that thread when they can’t take the stress of the political ones.