Gagala News (G-log #3)

The Secret Lair will be unavailable due to maintenance.

Start time: 2025-10-21 08:00 GMT+0 End time: 2025-10-21 11:00 GMT+0

Impact: Database server downtime

Maximum duration: Up to 3 hours of problems with mysql-database connectivity

Work on the public Secret Lair will take longer than expected. Many files were renamed with an additional _02 or _03; I have no idea which program did this. These files must all be renamed manually.

Sorry for the delay.

Scheduled maintenance on the shared hosting server of the Secret Lair:

Start time: September 19, 2025, at 08:00 GMT+0

End time: September 19, 2025, at 08:30 GMT+0

Impact: Database server downtime

Maximum duration: Up to 20 minutes

All passwords for the special folders have been updated, please go to the crowdfunding site where you are registered to get them. If you have any problems, please contact me immediately.

Thank you for your support!

[Bear hug!]

Dear Customer,

We would like to inform you about upcoming maintenance on one of our shared hosting servers. During this time, hardware upgrades will be performed, which will require a server reboot and result in a brief service disruption.

Details of the maintenance are as follows: Location: Atlanta, US Start Time: 2025-04-24 16:15 GMT+0 End Time: 2025-04-24 16:30 GMT+0 Expected Impact: Temporary service disruption due to a server reboot Maximum Duration: 15 minutes

We appreciate your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thanks to XnViewMP (freeware, but still buggy) I was able to rename all the wrong "Britina" files in one go, and can only hope that these were the only files with wrong names. Case closed for now.

If you find any bugs in the Secret Lair, please feel free to report them to me.

Please and thank you.

To Platinum users (currently only).

I have just discovered that some files in the "Platinum" folder have been renamed or are missing. The Secret Lair is based on jAlbum software, which creates the entire gallery on my PC and then transfers the files to the server. This means that if any changes were made and not by me, they could only have been made on my PC. I didn't do it, so it must have been done by someone else, or some really weird and bad bug in the program.

I call this the "Britina hack" because many pictures now have "Britina" in the filename. Not funny.

Fixing this will take a lot of time. I'll check older backups, maybe it'll go faster, but I have no idea when this happened.

I have a firewall, but I can't say how well or badly it works.

Sorry this happened, I'm working on it.

All passwords for the special folders have been updated, please go to the crowdfunding site where you are registered to get them. If you have any problems, please contact me immediately.

Thank you for your support!

[Bear hug!]

Special Folders:

The Xmas pictures I uploaded had the date they were created, so they won't show up when you search for "Images taken in the past 48 hours". Instead, click on "Images taken in the past 14 days".

Please and thank you.

All passwords for the special folders have been updated, please go to the crowdfunding site where you are registered to get them. If you have any problems, please contact me immediately.

Thank you for your support! [Bear hug!]