- Turns out I made a very stupid mistake when installing the server, so I had to do it again from scratch. Luckily Discourse is easy to install and seems to have a solid backup-restore. Site’s IP address has changed though. Hopefully everything still works as before.
- Discourse updated to 1.3.2
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Discourse updated to 1.3.3
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In addition, our performance comparison of Microsoft Edge vs Google Chrome got some serious attention at Hacker News, which caused a significant spike in site traffic.
- Discourse updated to 1.3.4
Bit of back-end maintenance and updates. Users may have observed a short downtime.
Logo coming up! Perhaps bit of modifications still needed. Also great to see that we are finally getting some user interactions. This site does not intend to be a blog, but a community for everyone tech minded.
Well, there we go with the logo. I like the emphasis on “ReWritable” - it honors the heritage of the site, while being applicable to new/current format of the site.
Discourse update to 1.35. Also experimenting with AdSense. Yeah, too bad, but gotta pay the server bills.
Sorry folks, I had to develop a cookie content scheme in order to comply with the regulations of European Union and the policies of Google, Inc.
Disourse updated to 1.4.3 and also some minor tweaks to the back-end.
I have been very happy to notice that we have finally attracted some active members, driven by the Windows tablet enthusiasts. I am a Linux die hard, but hey - everyone is welcome and indeed those devices are interesting 
. Keep the posts coming and remember that we are not focused or restricted to any specific topic. Anything that touches the field of ICT and tickles the brain is good!
Major platform update, as we just started tracking the Discourse Beta branch, and therefore upgraded to v1.5 beta. This should bring us lot of improvements and fixes, but there is also some potential for bugs.
Upgraded to Discourse 1.5 beta 8. Minor visual tweaks as well.
Discourse upped to beta 11+ and Docker to 1.10.
- Major back-end changes, as I decided to try another VPS hosting provider that provides more resources at a lower price point. So we have a new server with double RAM.
- Discourse now at 1.5b13
More back-end tuning. Attached images and other files are now hosted in Amazon S3.
We have just enabled https / SSL encryption on this site, courtesy of Let’s Encrypt. Let me know if you notice any issues.
I’m also using let’s encrypt; it’s nice but I wish you didn’t have to renew so often, even if it’s schedulable 
. Anyway, this is a nice site to see if the ssl/https is implemented properly:
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=cd-rw.org
You can get an A+ if you set up HSTS to be more strict (my site:
SSL Server Test: toxme.io (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs) )
Otherwise, yay for SSL!
Let’s Encrypt support is baked into Discourse so, that it should auto-renew the cert and therefore be “set it and forget it”-solution. There has been some bugs in the implementation during spring, thus I have not enabled it earlier. Bu tnot it seems to be ready for production, so let’s see how it goes.
Also the solution here is two-fold, as I use CloudFlare CDN in front of this website. I have not yet enabled HSTS is CloudFlare settings, but the support is there.