run Gratipay 153

[rohitpaulk]

152

[chadwhitacre]

I'm on it.

[rohitpaulk]

!m @whit537

[chadwhitacre]

!m @rohitpaulk

[chadwhitacre]

Backup taken and verified.

[chadwhitacre]

Okay, team. I am emerging from gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#192 (comment) with new news:

[A]fter 152 weeks of continuous operation, we are for the first time today skipping Gratipay’s weekly payment cycle.

I'm about to blast this out on Twitter, Medium, and email, but I wanted you to have it first. I'll answer any questions as I'm able (I'll be vetting with our lawyer, @copiesofcopies, so I won't be able to be super-responsive. Also, if I understand this right, it turns out that he's firmly forbidden by attorney-client privilege from posting publicly here himself).

A sad day for Gratipay. 😞

[chadwhitacre]

Do you all think I should blast this out on email? It seems important enough to do that.

[chadwhitacre]

Actually, let's pick up with gratipay/inside.gratipay.com#192 (comment) ...

[chadwhitacre]

Pinned https://twitter.com/Gratipay/status/596444432024604673.

[chadwhitacre]

I inserted an empty payday.

insert into paydays default values;

            UPDATE paydays                                                                            
               SET ts_end=now()                                                                       
             WHERE ts_end='1970-01-01T00:00:00+00'::timestamptz                                       
         RETURNING ts_end AT TIME ZONE 'UTC'                                                          

[chadwhitacre]

We should at least email MassPay people ...

[chadwhitacre]

Our email infrastructure is not set up to email the MassPay people. :-/

I've queued emails for 2611 people.

[chadwhitacre]

2106 ...

[chadwhitacre]

870 ...

[chadwhitacre]

268 ...

[chadwhitacre]