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DB corruption, screwy indexes? Or dodgy scheduled process executing, possibly overnight?
Cyberattack by various opposition groups?- including Murphy’s Islamomaniac allies?
Obviously it is an entirely predictable result of neoliberalism.
As several people have asked me recently about . . .
I imagine a DDOS attack or similar. As I’ve said before, I think migrating to Substack might be worth considering.
DDOS wouldn’t total the database and need a reinstall from backups, it would just make it hard to view the site.
WordPress is not renowned for its security, so it might be worth having a look at the new comments plugin to see if anyone else is seeing issues. Otherwise, if it happened at the same time both days then the scheduled task suggestion above is also worth looking into.
Yeah, I have no idea – computers not my thing. But whatever it is, as I say, it doesn’t seem to happen to Substack, and that must be subject to all sorts of attacks.
I’m not sure if not being exposed to the output of British journalism is necessarily a disbenefit.
On which subject, since I seem to have been paywalled out of most of it, absent the Graun (shudders) I’m reduced to the Express for the latest going-ons on the Isle of Ugly Women.
What a curious newspaper. The lead in to most stories are along the lines of “The ONE thing that Trump said…” or “The THREE things you need to know about…” And if you read the story it omits to tell you what the ONE or THREE were. The rest of it seems to be reporting what broadcast TV said about this that & the other or just about what’s on broadcast TV, what was once on broadcast TV & what people from broadcast TV are doing or once did. Since terrestrial TV looks like it’s in it’s death throws, it doesn’t look much of a policy for the future. I presume the Express newspaper is now THREE interns in an office doing work experience with some help from AI. What a sad fate for what was once a leading newspaper with influential columnists. And what happened to Rupert Bear? Vivisected?
The other day I saw a copy of the Daily Mail – first time in, I guess, decades. I thought it wasn’t too bad. It was certainly consistent with the First Law of Newspapers i.e. you’ll learn much more about humans from the Mail than from the Guardian.
Haven’t seen a paper edition of the Mail for.. yes, decades. Maybe it’s still a newspaper. Online version seems mostly a publicity vehicle for Kardashian clones
The Mail is simply the Guardian with the dog whistle tuned to a different pitch. And (much) better fact checking.
I only ever read (skimmed through) The Express when visiting my father. So, since he died last year… 🙁
Oh no! All my well-crafted character development – lost!