After announcing the migration yesterday, the past 24 hours have been very stressful for me. About 11AM PDT yesterday, the migration began to move WUWT to a new much more secure and feature rich cloud server. It didn’t go well, and took far longer than I expected.
There were issues with the server SSL certificate, apparently, the SSL doesn’t become valid until DNS changes fully propagate. That was news to me, and the reason that some people got errors yesterday that the site “may be dangerous” because the SSL certificate wasn’t valid.
Propagation took an unusually long time, with the major issue being with Google’s public DNS servers, which didn’t get the memo until just before 10AM this morning. Now, once that log-jam broke, it appears we are essentially correctly referenced world-wide.
I have a long history with Google and repression. Me and our stable of guest authors write unpopular content, questioning the veracity of many outlandish claims about global warming. It’s inconvenient for some that we’ve been so successful.
Al Gore is on the BOD of Google was on the advisory board to Google, and in 2009 after I broke the story about ClimateGate he apparently lobbied Google to have me censured. Google abruptly and without explanation cancelled Google Adwords on my wordpress.com hosted site. Higher-ups at WordPress wanted to know why (they were losing revenue, after all), had a face-to-face meeting scheduled with Google the next week, and it was abruptly canceled the day before and they stopped returning calls.
My site’s treatment by Google is one of the strongest reasons the independent WordPress WordAds now exists, or so I’m told.
Through all this, WordPress and the WP staff (known as “happiness engineers” have conducted themselves with fairness, dignity, and without political prejudice. My hat is off to all of you, because you do in fact uphold the spirit of “net neutrality” while offering a superior platform. They don’t do, evil, and I sincerely thank them their help and professionalism through it all.
This is my first post on the new WP cloud server, where I’ve been since November 2007. God help me if I had chosen Blogspot (now owned by Google and called blogger.com) over WordPress.com back then.
Now, onward, and we’ll see if we can’t get a number of thorny little problems fixed while expanding features. Some comments made yesterday may have been lost, and remain on the old site. There is little I can do about that, my apologies.
Thanks sincerely to everyone for their patience.
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Sorry, that was supposed to be a reply to Bill T May 31, 2018 at 2:44 am.
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A search for “WattsUpWithThat” using DuckDuckGo yields a defamatory spiel from wikipedia at the top of the page above search results. It’s no different to the thought policing you get from google.
Attempting to post from Firefox with javascript disabled…
DuckDuckGo and Google give the same defamatory warning from the Thought Police above results on a search for “WattsUpWithThat”
In a world where money talks, you can call that “free speech.”
Edited to add…nothing of value – just because I can!
Edited for the second time to correct a typo.
Edited for a third time to say, “Hey this editing timer is giving me panic attacks. I only have 2 minutes left to change my mind…OMG!”
Your contribution to freedom and democracy is an example to us all. Thank you again for your dedication. I have been using Firefox 56 with the old CA Assistant and Greasemonkey, but the migration seemed to have finally eliminated that editing tool. It would be great if there were an alternative.
Thanks for the kind words.
I suggest you use Chrome, Edge, or anything else. Firefox is such a mishmash of spaghetti code that it is no longer reliable. I gave up on it a couple of years ago.
I posted this on the last article on the old site (“NOTE: Please find our new website”) and fear it was overlooked by everyone coming to this new site. But I would value a reply, because I haven’t had any emails relating to new articles for this new site. I used to get 8 to 12 a day for the old site. Anyway, this was my question:
“Surely, when you send out emails to all your subscribers every day, giving notice of a new article, wouldn’t the link in that email take the recipient to your new ‘Pressable’ page?
I haven’t received any emails yet with a link to the new page but I can’t think that has anything to do with my browser cache.”
It has everything to do with your browser cache. The link directs the browser, and the browser then looks in it’s cache first before deciding what, if anything, to download from the site and what the site is.
You’ll need to resubscribe to email notifications because that part doesn’t migrate, due to security issues related to all those email addresses. This is a new site, with all the old content moved over.
Therefore, resubscribing to email notices is a must if you want to continue to receive them.
Thanks for your help, Anthony, and I add my congratulations for all your hard work (and worry) in moving to the new site.
Other commenters on here seem to think the fact of just posting a comment will ensure they get back on the email list, is that correct? It doesn’t seem to be as I still haven’t received any – but I haven’t done the Follow or resubscribe thing yet, which you advised. I’m just about to try, although it says (on this page) that I am already following WUWT.
Yes, that worked. I got an email confirming my subscription status. Thanks again Anthony.
Anthony,
Sleep deep tonight…. and late tomorrow morning.
Ya done real good!!
I wonder whether the new “Edit” feature button means that readers aren’t able to see one’s comment until after the five minutes is up?
A test post to re-enable notifications via email.
Unfortunately WordPress still does not put elementary text formatting tools with the comment box. See http://joannenova.com.au comment box for an example of how to could be done.
Apparent people like you Mr. Watts are not demanding such simple tools be included by default, thus we commenters are still in the blog-world equivalent of WordPerfect 1988.
Oh, and it would be nice to be allowed to edit comments for a short while after they’re posted, many people have poor proofreading skill (and like me dyslexia).
So I now see some elementary spelling/grammar failings in my posting above but am powerless to correct them, however I hope you get the message.
Yes I know you have the Test page (which takes for ever to load) however why in this modern age is anyone forced to remember arcane codes and coding methods (which I often forget)?
Please ask WordPress to update the user interface, lawd knows I’ve asked them often enough — their reply was their is no call for it by bog administrators Could you at least add one voice to this call?
Have a good day, keep-up the good work.
TM.