Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Time to Truly Test

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As most of you know, this morning the site was brought to its knees because a new feature – – emojis – – wasn’t quite ready for prime time. I’d like your help putting it through the paces, and this time I’ve opened up our development test server for everyone. Please go to this post and leave comments and “emoji” other comments that are there. I really need you to emoji the hell out of this thing so we can smoke out any issues. I say again, please go there now and bang on it, because the more real-world data we’ve got, the better. You’ll probably have to log in when you get there (since it’s a development server) but once you’re logged in, have at it! Thank you very much, and I look forward to re-introducing emojis in a condition that doesn’t wreck my beloved Slope.

Regrouping

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Hey everybody. Again, thanks for putting up with the very rough ride this morning. It was definitely emoji-related, but I don’t want you turning your back on this spiffy new feature due to some downtime. What we’re going to do is put it through the wringer (this time, on a development server) with your help later today and figure out where the problem is. Anyway, we seem to be back in business 100%, with the temporary removal of our emoji friends. I’ll do a post after the close telling you precisely how you can help. Thank you!