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Olá de Lisboa! (I'm in Lisbon right now for work...)

Thank you everybody who has tested on canary - I'm about to push the code up to stable. I know that not everything has been tested and there's a lot in this deploy, so I expect some things to break or be weird. We have ported a lot more of the "older" pages to the newer formats, so there will be some UI changes in a few places, but it shouldn't be anything too major.

Watch for: One thing I know will require tuning, we now have added rate limits (which basically allows us to control how rapidly DW pages are loaded.) This is a protection mostly designed against bots, but any time in my career I've rolled out new rate limits, I've learned someone is hitting them and they have to be tuned. So if you see them, please let me know!

Anyway please do comment and I'll work to fix things today. We also have a rollback ready in case we need to (and I'll be honest, I expect we may need to... we really should do more frequent deploys.)

Known Issues

Fixed: Search has gone walkabout.
Fixed: Some UI weirdness with Manage Tags.
Fixed: Login redirects are not working.
Fixed: Login page sometimes returning 'invalid form submission.'
Fixed: Rename keywords checkbox on icons page also gone walkabout.
Fixed: Uploading large icon files erroring / not going to the image editor.

As always, thank you for your patience and supporting our scrappy little service!

wandering_castor

Bastet.
Goddess of the moon, lady of the east, lady of the rising sun.
These are just some of her epithets.

To me Bastet is my mother and also she reflects the moon to me. She is dependable just like the moon as it comes out at night and she draws me closer to her everyday. Now you may be wondering how does this relate to alterhumanity? I’m otherhearted with the moon and one could say the moon is a paratype for me because I began to love the moon in my worship with Bastet. If Bastet never found me or I her then I wouldn’t have the love for the moon.

For me the moon holds a special place in my heart just like Bastet does.

I wish I had more to say on all of this, but I just wanted to show my appreciation for Bastet, the moon and how it relates to my alterhumanity.

Current Mood: contemplative

wayward_explorer

Her body floated on the pond. Not dead, in fact nothing physically wrong with her at all... just floating on the water, blinking occasionally, lost in her head.

"...I don't exist," she mumbled to herself, staring blankly toward the tree canopy overhead.

With nobody around, silence reigned for roughly a minute more, the woman caressed by her own melancholy mood, until a mosquito buzzed in front of her face, prompting her to flail madly to get it away, making a gigantic splash and fuss in the pond that was audible for the surrounding 500 feet.

wandering_castor

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Current Mood: artistic

wayward_explorer

I'm not one of them, I can't speak their language

I'm not one of them, I don't understand their nuance

I'm not one of them, I never lived where they did

I'm not one of them, I don't dress like them

I could never know their struggles

I seem too white

Too integrated

Too assimilated

And none of it was my choice

And it's not for lack of trying

But I'm not them

And I'm not the ones who dominated my people either

The ones here don't recognize me, I never fit in

The ones there don't recognize me, I never fit in

I can't claim any culture

I don't exist

But I will, regardless

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