On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 10/20/14, 13:25, William Stein wrote: >> >> >> On Oct 20, 2014 10:18 AM, "slelievre" <samuel.lelie...@gmail.com >> <mailto:samuel.lelie...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > William wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:05 AM, kcrisman <kcri...@gmail.com >> <mailto:kcri...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> Why is interact.sagemath.org <http://interact.sagemath.org> down? >> >> >> Is this a temporary problem or has it been discontinued? >> >> >> Now it only points to William Stein's homepage. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > I assume there must have been spam problems, though Jason had done >> something >> >> > to disallow such comments a month or two ago, so I'm a little >> surprised at >> >> > that. >> >> >> >> We shutdown the old computer boxen.math.washington.edu >> <http://boxen.math.washington.edu>, on which >> >> interact.sagemath.org <http://interact.sagemath.org> was (maybe?) >> hosted, since it was running a very >> >> old unpatch-able version of Linux. We gave people weeks to migrate >> >> things over, but I guess nobody cared about interact.sagemath.org >> <http://interact.sagemath.org>. >> >> >> >> Probably somebody could start it running again on the new >> >> boxen.math.washington.edu <http://boxen.math.washington.edu>, which >> is running again with a new OS. >> > >> > >> > Well, following the announcement of imminent shutdown of boxen: >> > >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sagemath-users/s0bUsGN4lMQ/CNFUqkk5F8IJ >> > >> > there was a post by Jason Grout warning that interact was running >> > from there. He said he didn't have time to set it up elsewhere, but >> > apparently he made some backup, so it might be recoverable: >> > >> > >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sagemath-users/s0bUsGN4lMQ/vzhy44OS7tQJ >> > >> > Jason's post was a couple of days after the other posts in the thread, >> > and so maybe it wasn't noticed. >> > >> >> We noticed his message. We didn't delete any data, so getting the site >> back is certainly possible. We waited a few weeks but boxen had to be >> shut down for security reasons. > > > I backed up the data (both the mysql database and the Drupal files) before I > sent that message, so it should be ready to roll out again. If boxen is > back up again, I can try to do it in the next week or so. Or if someone > else wants to do it, please let me know. > > I think having public cloud files, like William just enabled, plus a curated
For example (no login required): https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/4a5f0542-5873-4eed-a85c-a18c706e8bcd/files/interacts/ I haven't added much, but that could easily have much more. Also, I plan to soon add support for hashtags, searching (descriptions of) public files, etc. At that point it will be necessary to make reporting spam easy, but now it isn't since the only way to find public files is via knowing the url. > index of really nice examples, plus maybe a wiki page of short simple > examples, is a better approach than the rather heavy-weight > interact.sagemath.org. I think the biggest thing I took from running > interact.sagemath.org is that we should do all we can to lower the barrier > between creation and sharing. I now think that the barrier of posting to a > separate interact.sagemath.org website (and actively maintaining it against > spam) is rather high compared to just hitting a button to publish a > worksheet. > > Thanks, > > Jason > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
