Server Updates & Change Log

Anarcho_Tech_Team

Updates related to the server will be announced in this topic. We also post updates when we add new features to the websites.

Anarcho_Tech_Team

We recently added a bunch of new sources to the platform, so if you see old articles being posted it's just because it's a new source.

When we add a new source, the last 5 articles are usually reposted on the websites, but after this, only freshly published articles will be posted, so this is a temporarily situation

sabcat13

why don't u just use the original post date when inserting posts in wordpress?

Anarcho_Tech_Team

sabcat13 why don't u just use the original post date when inserting posts in wordpress?

Timezone issues due to posts coming from blogs in a different timezone

Ungovernable

Last Update:

The technical team has just completed a big update to correct several bugs, improve security and speed up the loading speed. Also, links to the NDNM store have been added at the bottom of the page when viewing an article. These are the same links that you see at the bottom of the forum and that disappear when you connect. These links are already present on InfoLibertaire but we wanted to wait as long as possible before adding them to other platforms. The problem is that the store is currently in a difficult financial situation. Sales have fallen by half since the pandemic, our supplier has raised prices, and server costs for hosting platforms keep increasing exponentially. In short, the store has been operating at a loss for about a year and a half and the income is not sufficient to cover donations and expenses. This is not sustainable in the long term and it endangers the survival of all the other sites hosted by the coop, so we hope that this additional visibility will help raise the funds necessary for the functioning of the servers. The situation will be reassessed in 1 year and the ads will be removed if possible.

Ungovernable

Ok so it's 5AM and i spent the entire night on this shit 😅 The last Wordpress update broke our newsletter subscription form in the widgets. There was a jquery error in the console so I tried moving the jquery scripts to the footer but nope... Looks like a caching issue so I disabled Cloudflare and Pagespeed but nope.

Finally found the problem. It's the stupid Mailpoet plugin we are using. This thing is crap it looks like abandonware and they want to push their new version. We will have to find an alternative soon. Anyway, the problem is that the plugin uses an old version of jquery.validationEngine.js calling a size function that is not available in the most recent jQuery versions. So probably the wp updates also updated the version of jquery.
I downloaded the most recent version of jquery.validationEngine.js on github, then uploaded it to overwrite the file here:
/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/wysija-newsletters/js/validate/jquery.validationEngine.js

I'm writing this because it's possible that a future update of wysija-newsletters will overwrite the file again, so we just need to do the same fix again

p.s. ditch this crap asap

Anarcho_Tech_Team

Big update on all websites. We've been working on that in the background for the last 2 weeks. Besides the new Top100 feature that was announced here you won't notice much change. That's because most of the updates are in the backend.

To sum it up:

Many bug fixes
Updated Page Speed module configuration to increase the overall loading speed of the websites
Better support of mobile devices with updated responsive layout
Updated extraction of full-text content of the articles we are reposting
Added many new sources
Server-side enhancements
Updated configuration of our CDN