Notifications and some issues due to AWS outage

[mark]

Hi all --

Due to the major AWS outage today, some of our systems are impacted -- particularly around notifications and emails. We will work to make sure that service is restored as soon as we can.

Unfortunately, due to the nature of the outage, it may be that notifications were lost along the way. We don't really have a way to go back and re-identify notifications that should have been sent and weren't, so the best bet is to check back on any conversations you were in or your recent posts to see if you missed anything.

Once service is fully restored (which should be soon), though, notifications should be back to their usual selves.

Edit: We are starting to see things moving again! Notifications are being generated and it looks like we may not have lost anything and they're just going to be quite tardy. Knock on wood.

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Alternate Communication Management Strategy

[frith]

I suspect that if a comment or reply is associated with a community or blog, it can be found here: http://www.dreamwidth.org/comments/recent ? Otherwise, if it's a direct message, check your inbox for fresh messages here: https://www.dreamwidth.org/inbox/ ?

Re: Alternate Communication Management Strategy

[rampitec]

Does not seem to work. Inbox is also not populated with new comments, it is not just emails. Confirmed 5 min ago.

Re: Alternate Communication Management Strategy

[frith]

Curious. The Manage Comments (the first link) has updated for me, showing that I've commented here and that my comment has been replied to.

Re: Alternate Communication Management Strategy

[rampitec]

Interesting. First link works for me too, but not the second.

Re: Alternate Communication Management Strategy

[frith]

I can't tell if the Inbox link is updating since I haven't made a blog post in 5 days and the last time I got a DM was 87 weeks ago. Suffice to say I don't check my Inbox that often. ^_^

On a side note, thanks to Snopes, I believe the AWS outage here is for Amazon Web Services. https://snopes-feed.dreamwidth.org/8075835.html

Re: Alternate Communication Management Strategy

[assholic]

Inbox isn't working at all. Not even for PMs. I've not only tried to send out to others, I've tried to send to myself and they're all not being sent or received. Send yourself a PM and see what happens.

EDIT: Now I'm getting a flood of my test PMs. YAY!

Re: Alternate Communication Management Strategy

[rampitec]

Seem to work as of now at least for me.