So the server seems stable. That’s good news. Thanks to all of you for your feedback over the last few weeks.
I’d like to make small changes to the site and make it more usable? What would you like to see (including big bugs that I’ve missed)?
That was fast! Sorry about the downtime.
Unfortunately the website (and all email functions) are down for the moment. The server crashed! There is no ETA at the moment.
I know this is frustrating for you and it’s even more frustrating for me.
I have officially started the search for a new hosting provider and will definitely be switching over to that new hosting provider within a matter of days.
I apologize for the instability of the site, especially at this time in the semester.
Unfortunately, as some of you may have noticed, the server experienced a massive slow-down during the past few weeks that made the lexicon unusable in many instances. I’d like to apologize for that. As soon as I found out about it, I started working with the ISP to correct the issue. They were unable to assist and so I was forced to improvise. I believe I have now corrected the issue, but please feel free to provide feedback. In fact, if you have a moment, please send an email to efesar@unm.edu or add a comment to this post. Please let me know how long you experienced issues and if you have experienced any issues since. Again, I apologize for this technical glitch and I appreciate your patience.
It looks like the server move was successful. If you notice any glitches, please leave a comment and let me know so that I can fix it!
Numen is getting a new server! It will be moving sometime this week or next week, depending on how many glitches I run into in the new server environment. So far, it’s looking like it will move tomorrow evening (Saturday) the 20th of July, 2013. But, if that doesn’t work, I’ll try to migrate it over as soon as possible. With any luck, there will be zero down time.
However, after the server move, you might discover glitches. If you do, please just contact me and let me know as soon as possible and I’ll get it all squared away.
I found myself with plenty of time this week so I’ve been fixing some long neglected bugs on this site.
The most important bug I fixed was in the way participial paradigms were formed. I discovered the problem when I parsed montium (“of mountains”) and the verb meo came up. Hopefully I fixed the problem without causing too many others.
Also, it may not look this way, but I’m constantly correcting bad dictionary entries or data-entry errors. I usually fix 10-20 per day. Anytime you notice an error in any dictionary entry, please feel free to report it and it’ll automatically go into my TODO list!
If you know of a particularly unpleasant or distracting bug that you’d like me to fix, please let me know.
Paradigms for adjectives and pronouns are now online! Find any adjective or pronoun in the dictionary and click See the Complete Paradigm! Please report any errors you find and I’ll fix them as soon as possible!
If you use the word study tool, occasionally you’ll notice that a word that can be derived from multiple entries (that is, it could be an adjective, a noun, and a participle — or perhaps it’s homonymous with another word), you might see the many words in an apparently random order. At that point, which one do you choose?
I was reading some Apuleius today and I made a simple realization when working with the word Milesio in the first paragraph. The very rare word “milesium” (a kind of kingfisher) was popping up as the first definition and that was clearly wrong.
I thought on it for a moment and wondered how to make the much more common “Milesius” first. Then I realized something: Words which are more common in the dictionary typically have more definitions, more citations, and so on and so forth. Without any sort of intelligent algorithm, I simply sorted by longest dictionary entry to shortest dictionary entry. Voila!
Naturally this solution won’t help those Latin readers who are hoping to get some insight into rare forms, but it should help the majority of casual readers to get the see the most likely answer first.
Feedback? Please let me know.
I would like to apologize for some site slowness in the last week or two. I think the problem is fixed permanently, but if not, feel free to let me know.