Code update and cluster moves

[mark]

Just did another code update. Very tiny. Celerity is now available as a site scheme for those who want a chance of pace from the Tropospherical scheme.

Additionally, I will be starting a process of cluster moves for people on the Temporary Cluster. If you are on this cluster, you will be moved to one of our new clusters. (Note that the cluster names are, well, temporary. We will be running some sort of something to let the community name our database clusters after Open Beta hits.)

What cluster are you on?

The process of cluster moves is fairly painless. If you are using the site during the 30 seconds your account is moving, you will be read only and have to wait a minute for it to finish. If you aren't around at the right time, you'll never know it happened.

As always, if you see any problems, please let me know.

Comments

[rebelsheart]

When did we get Tropospherical Purple as a site scheme?

looks good to me otherwise.

What determined the initial cluster out of curiousity? I'm on temporary but the community I created is on Alpha Centauri.

[mark]

Purple has been live for a few days!

The initial cluster is somewhat random. There were initially three clusters: 1, 2, and 3. Only the first 50 people were on cluster #1, they've all been moved. Cluster #3 is purely for syndicated accounts. #2 is where most people have been put -- 85,000 accounts (openids/comms/people).

The maintenance two nights ago added in clusters #4 and #5, which are actually physically separate. (1, 2, and 3 share the same hardware.)

But, the hardware that clusters 1, 2, and 3 are on also is the hardware running the global database, MogileFS database, TheSchwartz database, etc. So it's pretty busy. When all is said and done, we'll have three physically separate clusters, one is the global/misc cluster, the other two (Alpha Centauri and Betelgeuse) are user clusters.

Way too much detail? I hope so!

Too much detail?

[rebelsheart]

Not yet. More like just enough for me.

edit: and now to poke my email admin and see if the firewall decided to start blocking email from Dreamwidth, because I'm not getting emailed notifications for anything.

[trobadora]

Alpha Centauri and Betelgeuse

Can I just say I love those names and hope you keep them?

[sarken]

I second this. I'm positively giddy to discover I'm on Betelgeuse.

[trobadora]

And I'm on Alpha Centauri! Hey, where else can you say that with a straight face? :D

[quiara]

Hee. You're implementing a clusterfork! ^_^

[vampwillow]

::groan::

[sorchasilver.livejournal.com]

Thank you for Celerity! It makes a HUGE difference.

[aquabean]

Seconding this!

[kahtyasofia]

Celerity is a nice layout! I'll take it this layout in the purple colors, please!

Well, a girl can always hope.

[delight]

I'll take it this layout in the purple colors, please!

Is that a request? :) Hey, branchandroot, would you mind if I did?

[kahtyasofia]

I'll make it an official request if someone wants to take a crack at it! *claps in excitement*

[delight]

I made Tropo Purple, so if Celerity's maker doesn't mind I'm happy to take another recoloring go! I enjoy it. A lot. I'm working on other Tropospherical color schemes, too, though everything is in stasis until school calms down.

Do you like the same purples as Tropo Purple, or would you rather something darker or blander? (This is absolutely open for anyone else to respond to, also.)

[zeldaophelia]

I'll step in with a request. I'd love to see Celerity (or any other schemes) plummy purples (like in my userpic).

Of course, my love of purple is pretty epic, so just about any shades of purple would be wonderful otherwise. :D :X

[quiara]

Would you consider making a Tropo in sage, lemon, lime and eggshell? (rough guesses at names; I could give you specific HEX if you wanted.)

Is there somewhere you'd suggest I could go to read about learning these things? ^_^ I have some CSS/(X)HTML skills, but I don't really know what's involved in skinning the home page. (n00b!)

[rainbow]

I'd love Celerity in a deep muted plum, since you asked *g*

[zvi]

Could we get a tropo with a less intense gray? Or maybe even a warm eggshell-y color for the background color? That's what would really make tropo work for me.

[boji]

Another vote for a purple Celerity - and yes, deep purple would be just gorgeous.

Thank you for Celerity it makes everything seem much clearer somehow, though don't ask me why.

[kahtyasofia]

Tropo purple is good. I generally prefer darker purples that lean towards the blue end of the spectrum and less the red. I'm not sure how well darker purples would work as a theme, Tropo may be as dark as it can get without being overwhelming. I DID learn while doing custom colors on my journal that the darker colors look better in the background frames while lighter colors work better up front.

[branchandroot]

Go for it! I figured on doing up some different colors for all three of them, but if you want to take purple on this one that's way cool. I hadn't done the alternate images up for Celerity yet, but I've had good results with colorshifting the others so far; it keeps the general intensity the same. I figure this should probably come out in kind of lavenders?

Also, I still have to debug, so code may change in places!

[zoniduck]

Yay Celerity! It's very clean and pretty.

[feuervogel]

I like Celerity! It's very brown. Now if I could make the color scheme in Transmogrified as nice very easily... (yeah, I know I can manually change the colors in style customization. It's not high on my priorities today. Maybe tomorrow.)

... Or I could spend some time playing around with it and making it prettier when I really should have been doing something actually productive. But it's really easy to work with, if you know what you're aiming for with the color schemes and how you want it to look. (I never really mucked with the LJ color schemes beyond the defaults.)

Maybe a problem?

[feuervogel]

Or maybe I'm just missing it? I can't find a way to navigate back further in the Transmogrified layout scheme. No "previous N" or "next N" link. There's the calendar, but that's non-ideal for your reading page.

Is it me, or are other people having this issue?

Re: Maybe a problem?

[feuervogel]

It's fixed! Sweet. Thanks tons!

[chrismm]

Oooooo. Celerity is awesome. Tropospherical is great, too--I'm sort of torn on which layout is better from a layout/use standpoint. :D The green tips me over the edge at the moment, though.

Thanks!

[ambrogino_giovanni]

Just adding my voice to the "thank yous" for the Celerity scheme. It's very polished and easy on the eyes. *grin*

[cedara]

What are the names for the clusters if I may ask? (Yes, I'm way too curious.)

[mark]

Right now the two clusters are the Alpha Centauri Cluster and the Betelgeuse Cluster.

[jademouse]

Celerity looks really nice, I like that the navigation links are on the sidebar.

Small bug report: the footer is misbehaving on the results page of the interest search. (Firefox)

[ninetydegrees]

Thanks for Celerity!

[xochiquetzl]

Hey! You fixed the custom group entry list thing! Awesome, thank you!

[blackbird_song]

I'm loving Celerity, but there is a display issue on the "Interests" page when one clicks through to it. The normal bottom of the layout (i.e., the area that lists the Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Diversity Statement, Guiding Principles and Site Map links between two pairs of horizontal lines) cuts through the first and second rows of the people listed who share the interest searched. I checked to make sure that the placement was always pegged that way, regardless of the number of communities or people listed, and it is.

I'm using Mac OS 10.4.11, with Firefox 3.0.8 as a browser. The same issue shows up on Safari 3.2.1, and I'm assuming that this is a bug instead of a feature. If I'm wrong and this is meant to be a feature, and/or if this isn't the right place to report this sort of thing, I do apologize. Please feel free to smite me and send me to the right place. (N00b, here.)

Catherine

[enigel]

Eee, I love the colour scheme and smoothness of Celerity!

Any chance to get the Tropo layout with the Celerity colours? *g*