Last week, we migrated our site to a new web host. It took about an hour, which was longer than what we expected, because we encountered bugs that came with the latest OSQA updates. But the good news is that we didn’t lose any data in the process. You still have your questions, answers, reputation points, badges, and profile information or least until somebody reports that they lost something.
Right after the migration, we received reports from users who can’t login to their accounts using Google OpenID. The quick fix is to send your myOpenID username to info@nullpointer.com or http://twitter.com/NullPointerPH. We will replace the OpenID provider that you are using for your existing NullPointer.ph account so you can login using your myOpenID account. It’s an ugly solution, especially to those who don’t have myOpenID accounts, but it’s our only fix until we find the root of the problem. After logging in, you can simply add Google as a new provider under the User Tools in your NullPointer.ph profile.
Since OSQA is still under development and because we are currently updating the site directly from the OSQA trunk, we will be expecting bugs, bug fixes, and new features almost everyday. In order to help us fix those bugs faster, we turned the debug mode on so you can easily copy and paste the stack trace and provide us with the pertinent information. We’ve setup Meta NullPointer.ph so all of us can easily track the bug reports and avoid duplicates.
Speaking of Meta NullPointer.ph, we would like to hear more from our community. Aside from posting bug reports, you can also propose features that you want to be implemented for NullPointer.ph. If you feel like we need to change the reputation point gains and losses, voting rules and badges configuration, we can discuss it at Meta NullPointer.ph.
We also don’t want to limit the site to just questions and answers. We’ve already setup the NullPointer.ph Job Board, to help companies find awesome Filipino developers and help Filipino developers find better jobs. We want our community to grow more than that and we want you to play a huge part in it, so if you have awesome ideas, feel free to post them at Meta NullPointer.ph so the whole community can share their thoughts about it.
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Looks like the migration process lost my login credentials. I can’t login via OpenID or Google Account (username: lurker). And judging from the site’s recent activity, this may have happened to others as well.
Ooops commented too fast. After actually reading your post, I now know what to do. Doh!