Macfilos site outage: What happened

Macfilos has been offline for the past 18 hours but all is now up and running. This was my fault because I pressed the wrong button while doing a bit of housekeeping. The site theme, NewsMag, was on the list of plug-ins waiting for amendment and I knew from past experience that I should leave this particular update to the experts. Inadvertently, however, I pressed the “update all” button and this immediately broke the site. As if this weren’t bad enough, I did it after 6 pm when our agency, Worcester Web Studios, had gone home for the evening.

Johann and Spencer at the agency worked on the site this morning but, unfortunately, the most recent roll-back failed. They have now restored the site from Monday and everything is working. I’m sorry for this break in service and I know it must have crossed the minds of regular readers that we had been hacked. Nothing so dramatic. Just my right index finder was hacked but I am sure it has now learned its lesson.

Back to business… and thank you all for your continued support.

Mike

7 COMMENTS

  1. At least your โ€˜yes to allโ€™ error didnโ€™t have the result of the operator at the nuclear threat desk in Hawaii a few years back. If you recall, that poor person clicked through the โ€˜yes to allโ€™ and โ€˜okโ€™ pop ups in the bleary start to their shift, thus setting off โ€˜this is not a drillโ€™ warnings of attack across the island that could only be switched off by the Governor โ€” who had to be reached on the golf course.

    • Yes, I shall wear mittens in future when approaching the siteโ€™s control panel. Far too risky.

    • Did cross my mind… At least I realised what I’d done and didn’t dwell too much on wider possibilities.

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