I moved our database storage to a new server this morning and I may have to tune things to get it running smoothly. If you notice problems this morning... that's why.

Home page is sometimes doing Error342.
I don't know if their weird symbol names were always there? It seems to keep happening with names that have the ' symbol? IDK

Have you seen an error 342 within the past 3 minutes or so?

All the emojis in the Orchids forum thread names have been corrupted:
https://garden.org/forums/view...

Usually Ursula puts one at the end of each monthly bloom thread title. Presumably this is a Unicode issue?

I migrated from MyISAM tables to InnoDB this morning and there might have been an encoding change that caused this. It would also affect symbols like copyrights and trademarks in the plants database. I'm investing it right now.

I see the problem and I will fix it but it'll take a while.

Thanks Dave.

@Dave
The buttons aren't really working
the home button, forum button one

Or it might just be them reacting SUPER SLOWLY.
The plant proposal submission took a minut or two to finally update.

Oh now the finish button is not responding?

Hi Dave!

I don't believe this has been reported yet (and if it has, I should get some new glasses or read slower one...).

But, there are some odd characters appearing with the plant information in the database (see under soil pH and temperature). I only checked three plants, but two had the odd characters (so not sure why the third was unaffected).

Also the trademark symbols or (r) symbols have a weird A or some weird language symbol infront of them.

Yes I mentioned this in my post above. You can scroll up to see it.

@Australis I think I have fixed the encoding of all the entries in the plants database. I'm working on the forum posts now. If you or anyone else sees any strange characters anywhere in the plants database starting now, please let me know.

Hamwild said: I only checked three plants, but two had the odd characters (so not sure why the third was unaffected).

Probably I finished fixing it between the time you saw the 2nd and 3rd entries.

dave said: Probably I finished fixing it between the time you saw the 2nd and 3rd entries.

I just checked again and looks good!

All character strings should be correct now. 🤞 If anyone sees any strange characters anywhere on the site, please do let me know in this thread.

Strange characters here on my blog, @dave. Where there're supposed to be emojis (and letters/words) there's some weird script

@Fieldsof_flowers thank you for this report! That should now be fixed. Could you check and confirm?

Yes it is! Thank you

Update: I have moved Garden.org itself to another machine. You probably didn't notice because there was only a few seconds of downtime during the move. As always, if you see any oddities please do let me know.

For those curious, I think I mentioned this before but I'm doing hardware and software upgrades this week. That means I had to move Garden.org to a temporary server so I can go remove and work on the main machine that runs this site.

When this work is all done, we'll have a faster and better Garden.org that'll last us well into the future.

THanks !

OMG @dave
HELP HELP!!! THE DB SEARCH ISN"T WORKING! EEKK!K!!!


I searched up Sempervivum tectorum and nothing came out! When I search up Sempervivum and Control+f it does though!!! When I search up Sempervivum it works, but Sempervivum tectorum does not