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To be clear, the intended operating system upgrade still has not succeeded.
The "clean up" was merely to clear out some now-useless artifacts left over from the failed upgrade attempt.

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DONE

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Need to do shutdown to do some clean-up ... should not take long.

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Upgrade attempt failed.
Everything rolled back to the whole-server backup that was made just before I attempted the upgrade.
Will keep running existing OS & software until further notice.

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The software we rely on to host WTF-Beta has dropped support for the current version of operating system we use.
So I am working on upgrading this underlying operating system, WTF-Beta may be "down" from time to time.
Fingers crossed!

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Updated to NodeBB 4.2.0 / Cloudron NodeBB package 2.17.0.
Auto-update re-enabled.
Maintenance done.

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I plan to update the forum software sometime over this weekend to get over the issue (previously discussed here) that has been preventing us from updating since January 2025, and hope to get us back to doing automatic updates again.

There will be multiple restarts so at times you may see that this website/app is unavailable.

Also, it has become increasingly clear that the Apple/iOS emoji plugin that we have been using won't be compatible with NodeBB past version 4.0, and there is no indication that the developers who originally packaged up the Apple/iOS emoji plugin for NodeBB are around to update it. So we will have to revert back to NodeBB's older/default emoji plugin.

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Sometime around 6:00 PM Eastern Time today (2025 January 30), the system automatically upgraded our NodeBB software to a new version that proved problematic.

Took many trials and errors to find a restoration point that has a slightly older version of NodeBB that works well, and the most recent workable restoration point happens to be one from 2025 January 21. So ... very sorry, whatever you have posted between 2025 January 21 and now cannot be restored.

For the time being, I have disabled auto-update so the system won't automatically upgrade us into a bad release. Will re-enable auto-update after the NodeBB development team releases a solid update.

(FWIW, other people are seeing similar issues, e.g.: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/13213/issue-starting-nodebb-on-cloudron-after-server-restart )

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Oh ... please be sure to "reload" or "refresh" your browser page (close and reopen the window to this website or even "clear cache" if you have to) so your browser picks up a complete, coherent set of changes for this website.

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