As I posted this morning to the news blog, I’m going to upgrade one of our servers in about an hour. We have redundancy for most things to avoid downtime, but this is a tricky one. Won’t affect hosted blogs. Hopefully will be quick. 🤞

@manton good luck with the upgrade!!

@manton Well, that took a lot longer than I expected. As it always does. Upgrade completed and everything's back up.

@manton I'm happy to see you on the other side!

@manton Do I remember right that you’re using Linode? Would the timing of this be related to their infrastructure updates happening now? I’m going through the same thing with a server I have over there. If I disappear from the internet tonight, that’s why. 🫥

@fgtech Yes, Linode. But the timing is a coincidence... This was an upgrade that we've been needing to do for a while.

@fgtech So, Linode is out?

@odd No, Linode is fine! They are doing some infrastructure upgrades and I was wondering if @manton got backed into the same maintenance corner I did. Sounds like it’s just me here for now. I think I’m okay but need to check some more things before my scheduled downtime tonight.

@manton Gotcha. Always nerve wracking to restart a server that has been chugging along fine for over a year. I am sure there’s stuff running that I brought up manually and won’t be running after the migration. This is an opportunity to fix that.

@fgtech Ah. Good to hear!

@manton do we use html to link text here or does your app allow it?

@conorporter Yes, Micro.blog sends HTML links which Mastodon can display (but not create).

@manton We seem to have found the features that turns Mastodon heads. Good old-fashioned hyperlinks FTW!

Maybe you should market the hell out of hyperlinks.

I can just imagine Apple marketing hyperlinks like they invented them!

"We've come up with a neat way to link content...

@njr Haha. It’s true, I’ve been surprised by the reaction to good old fashioned links. Never would’ve guessed.

@njr "It's called... Hyperlinks, and we can't wait to see what you do with them."

@gregmoore Exactly.

@manton I kid you not inline linking alone is good enough reason for me to use Micro.blog as my Fediverse presence than a dedicated Mastodon instance. It’s just so satisfying to hyperlink stuff.

@moonmehta We clearly need to highlight this feature more. 🙂 I take it as a given but I think in a way it highlights how Micro.blog is all about the web and blog posts, not inventing new protocols.

@gregmoore @njr 🤣

@gregmoore That would probably be “Apple Links”! 😂

@gregmoore I remember an interview with Bill Gates in, I believe it was late 1994, where he had little faith in “The Internet”, and was convinced that the Microsoft Network (or what it was) was going to dominate the online world. (Missing reference)

@gregmoore iDontThinkTheyAllowBrandsWhereLowercaseIIsTheSecondLetter™️ @njr