{"id":1558,"date":"2015-04-27T22:19:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T05:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2015-04-27T22:19:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T05:19:24","slug":"bringing-amplifize-back-from-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2015\/04\/27\/bringing-amplifize-back-from-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing amplifize back from the dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve built a website called amplifize<\/a>. It’s a small community of 10-12 folks who share articles, and talk about them together. It started as a Google Reader replacement at scale, and has downsized\u00c2\u00a0into my own, small Internet water cooler shared by some really fun, random, and interesting folks.<\/p>\n

Last week, I went to add the ability to edit comments… and I took the whole site down in the process \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

It then took me a full week to fix things. I was upgrading versions. Backing up data. Trying every darn StackOverflow article I could find to try to fix it. When it dawned on me that the only hope left was to rebuild the box. And that that wasn’t going to be pretty.<\/p>\n

But I bit the bullet. The box is rebuilt. I need to reinstall some things, but the data was saved, and we’re back in business.<\/p>\n

In the process, I cleaned things up. Removed a ton of unused files from the box. And lo and behold, the spring cleaning did the server, the app, and hopefully my soul a bit of good.<\/p>\n

The week it was down though, I constantly kept looking for it. To find a wacky article. To debate some nuance of how funny a goat video could be. It’s something \u00c2\u00a0that I’ve become so accustomed to just having there. And I genuinely missed it. And I think that means I’ve built something that I really love.<\/p>\n

That’s a wonderful feeling \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I’m glad it’s back up, and that we’re already sharing, commenting, reading, and just generally back to having fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve built a website called amplifize. It’s a small community of 10-12 folks who share articles, and talk about them together. It started as a Google Reader replacement at scale, and has downsized\u00c2\u00a0into my own, small Internet water cooler shared by some really fun, random, and interesting folks. 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