Dalek Zone has been down for the last 24 hours while Ben was moving to a new Internet service provider (and, therefore, a new IP address). The process is now complete and the necessary configuration changes have been done. The server has also moved out of Ben’s basement and into deluxe lodgings in his server room… See the picture below:
So the instance’s life should return to normal now, and the server has better cooling than in the garage:
Other news is that PeerTube has been upgraded to v8.0.2 cloned from Github. That new minor version step up from v8.0.0 has resolved a few bugs issues that shipped with it. Also, since I cloned the code base and then built it myself rather than getting a pre-built installation, I can make clean edits rather than dirtily hacking built files.
This should resolve a problem reported by Saruya whereby people using a browser set for a language other than English could not access the site content.
If you happened to notice that emails sent from Dalek Zone were delivered to your mailbox with black text on a black background, that’s now been remedied and messages will now be readable.
We’ll be working on upgrading the live chat feature to fully federate with other chat-supporting instances in the PeerTube network. Until present, live chat was restricted to within Dalek Zone. Now you’ll also be able to communicate with users on other nodes. I’ll post an update when that work is finished.
Also, you can now do your live-streaming via secure RTMPS on port 1936, in addition to plain-vanilla RTMP on port 1935.
That’s about all I can tell you right now. Enjoy, guys, and please do let me know if you notice something to repair.