forum A few behind-the-scenes releases today

Started June 06, 2018 by @andrew health_and_safety flash_onAdmin

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Please excuse any temporary site slowness as I release a few behind-the-scenes / infrastructure improvements today. The site will be slow for ~15 min after each release, but will ultimately be faster in the long term.

Some (admittedly more technical) notes on what's new:

• The language (ruby) the site runs on has been bumped several versions, which means more functionality to code with (woo!).
  • This also includes an ~5-10% performance improvement in many areas.
• A ton of third party libraries we use (like these forums, and the database) have been upgraded with security patches and performance increases.
• I added a "Site Support" board in the forums for anyone who has questions on how to do things, or questions in general about the site. (And i'll be moving the existing threads that fit there.)

Looks like the above upgrades broke image uploads for some users; they will be fixed shortly.

Edit: Uploads should be fixed now. Thanks for your patience.