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September 24, 2025
Welcome At The New Home Of Moon of Alabama

You have reached the new server home for Moon of Alabama.

MoA posts and comments published between September 6 and September 23 have not yet been uploaded here. (I depend on Typepad to do be able to do that.)

There are also still some minor design issues.

Please let me know of any problems with this web-site or the blog’s functionality.

Posted by b on September 24, 2025 at 06:50 UTC | Permalink
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congrats and commendations on allt the great work you do b! hopefullydebs comes back..

Posted by: james | Sep 24 2025 7:26 utc | 1

It works so lala on the cell phone, but good on the computer. Hope it not too much work and a lot can sync quickly. Thanks B.

Posted by: Lmaa | Sep 24 2025 7:44 utc | 2

I am getting moonofalabama.org.www635.your-server.de for the url now and I had to accept a mismatched cert to open the page. looks like you haven’t got the server correctly configured. otherwise looks like the old site

Posted by: dan of steele | Sep 24 2025 7:48 utc | 3

Congrats on the move. And the increased text formatting: Like this , this and the obligatory

slab of text

. Hooray!

Posted by: Waymad | Sep 24 2025 7:51 utc | 4

@Lmaa
It works so lala on the cell phone, but good on the computer. Hope it not too much work and a lot can sync quickly. Thanks B.

What is the problem on the cellphone?

Posted by: b | Sep 24 2025 7:52 utc | 5

Well done b. You must have been working extremely hard! I am really happy I can sign in again.
**

Missing a link back to “main” or does that come later?
An explanation of using HTML tags? (I normally used copy-paste as the easiest solution)

Posted by: Stonebird | Sep 24 2025 7:53 utc | 6

@dan of steele
I am getting moonofalabama.org.www635.your-server.de for the url now and I had to accept a mismatched cert to open the page. looks like you haven’t got the server correctly configured. otherwise looks like the old site

Working on it.

Posted by: b | Sep 24 2025 7:53 utc | 7

@Stonebird

Missing a link back to “main” or does that come later?
An explanation of using HTML tags? (I normally used copy-paste as the easiest solution)

Both in the works – may take a day or two.

Posted by: b | Sep 24 2025 7:54 utc | 8

One more b.

A web site was usually shown by the username being “highlighted” (red). This was my personal way of assuring that my name could not be stolen or used. (Name-takers would not be highlighted.)
**

When you have time…. Don’t forget to eat!

Posted by: Stonebird | Sep 24 2025 8:05 utc | 9

@dan of steele

Could you please try again?
1. Close the tab for Moon of Alabama
2. Try again in a new tab to go to Moon of Alabama.
Do you still get the warning?

Posted by: b | Sep 24 2025 8:06 utc | 10

still getting the your-server.de url when posting a comment.

the site opens fine with moonofalabama.org

Posted by: dan of steele | Sep 24 2025 8:14 utc | 11

Can’t say about dan of steele, but opening a new tab seems to have helped my cell phone solve the same problem.

Sometime in the later morning, I’ll try reaching MoA on my laptop. (EDT = UTC -4 here.)

Thanks, congratulations, and good luck

Posted by: John Anthony La Pietra | Sep 24 2025 8:16 utc | 12

And I can confirm getting the long, odd URL when my comment above was shown to me.

Posted by: John Anthony La Pietra | Sep 24 2025 8:19 utc | 13

I opened the site with Edge and get a page without formatting. When I click on the home icon it goes to the https://moonofalabama.org.www635.your-server.de/ and throws a cert error.

if I were to guess, looks like maybe you have hardcoded some things.

Posted by: dan of steele | Sep 24 2025 8:19 utc | 14

And once more, O ye laurels (and ye hardys) . . . I also got the odd URL when I went to look at another post via the Comments link. Not getting the cert error message now, though.

Oh — and I’m not being given an opportunity to edit my comments. At least not yet; I suspect that’s coming a bit later. (I haven’t been a tech person since the time decades ago when my then-workplace got its first PC and nobody else wanted to use it, so it became “mine”.)

Anyway, I’m hoping this info helps.

Posted by: John Anthony La Pietra | Sep 24 2025 8:32 utc | 15

Sorry — last postscript. On my phone now, my browser is Samsung Internet 28.0.5.9 on a similarly current (I believe) version of Android; my laptop test later will be c/o Firefox and Windows 11.

Posted by: John Anthony La Pietra | Sep 24 2025 8:38 utc | 16

I get a warning that the site is not secure.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Sep 24 2025 8:53 utc | 17

Wow, B, it’s excellent. I did NOT want to lose the old format. Thanks the great content and atmosphere you provide for us all!

Posted by: freedom fritos | Sep 24 2025 8:55 utc | 18

Wonderful

Looks just the same.

Posted by: watcher | Sep 24 2025 8:58 utc | 19

Keep the HTML tags advice, since I always forget them and never use them. I might start now.

Posted by: watcher | Sep 24 2025 9:00 utc | 20

The new site looks good, almost like the old.

Some problems.

All internal links lead to https://moonofalabama.org.www635.your-server.de/ To view the page you need to ignore all the warnings of a the wrong certificate.
https://moonofalabama.org/ does not load.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/ works, but suffers from security issues, as the certificate by Thawte TLS RSA CA G1 is issues to moonofalabama.org

P.S. Worst of all, there is no way of reviewing comments! Hope this comment renders correctly.

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Sep 24 2025 9:05 utc | 21

Test results:

1. The HTLM formatting allowed is different than on Typepad. Numbered and unordered lists no longer work.

2. The website of the commenter is not displayed.

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Sep 24 2025 9:13 utc | 22

Does www635.your-server.de control the webserver access logs of the IP numbers and comments posted to this website?

Posted by: too scents | Sep 24 2025 9:13 utc | 23

One difference I’ve seen so far. New site requires an email address to make a post, the old one didn’t. I put in a fake email address and it worked. It’s just an extra step.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Sep 24 2025 9:17 utc | 24

Long time lurker, extremely infrequent commenter. Very happy to see a new site up and running. Yes, there are growing pains, but this site and its patrons are irreplaceable. Thank you for your hard work B.

Posted by: dask | Sep 24 2025 9:19 utc | 25

Also getting the certificate error here (with Firefox).

Viewing the certificate shows the following:
moonofalabama.org
http://www.moonofalabama.org

but not
moonofalabama.org.www635.your-server.de

~~~

The “Main” link at the top of this page points to http://www.moonofalabama.org
whereas hovering over the ‘Moon’ logo and title points to moonofalabama.org.www635.your-server.de

~~~

Other than that, many congratulations on getting things up and running, with everything looking familiar.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 24 2025 9:52 utc | 26

Thank you, b. So far, so good.

Posted by: Lavieja | Sep 24 2025 9:54 utc | 27

Desktop version looks quite like the Typepad one, except the default font seems quite a bit smaller than earlier, hard for old eyes.

I like the feature to save the details for future posts, thanks.

Posted by: Rahul | Sep 24 2025 9:56 utc | 28

As too scents mentions on the Open thread, having the preview functionality would be awesome.

Posted by: Rahul | Sep 24 2025 9:58 utc | 29

Lovely, looking promising! I am seeing the site is “Not Secure”, but I suppose it is temporary.

Relieved to see the familiar layout.

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 24 2025 10:13 utc | 30

Test

Posted by: Lantern Dude | Sep 24 2025 10:14 utc | 31

Congratulations b.

Exclamation mark in triangle. Didn’t receive warning using ‘moonof alabama.org’ as google search.

Posted by: Lantern Dude | Sep 24 2025 10:17 utc | 32

Very impressive work for such short notice. The URL issue is biggest problem I see (the cert error will likely clear up when that is corrected).

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 10:18 utc | 33

The new site has a .de address, which I assume means it is a real Germany-based website now. My understanding is that the old site was hosted by a US-based company. Knowing what we know about the generally free and uncensored discussions on some very controversial topics, fingers crossed that the new Germany-based site doesn’t cause any unforeseen legal problems with regards to the controversial topics that we are accustomed to seeing at MoA. Not sure if this is a real concern or not.
Thanks for all of your hard work b, so far so good on the changeover! MoA is a lifesaver for sanity.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Sep 24 2025 10:22 utc | 34

So far so GREAT. Well done our b
You de man!
👏👏👏

I’ve come in on a private tab- on my iPhone.
Ignored warning and proceeded anyway.
As they say ‘fools rush in… ‘

The url says it’s :
https://moonofalabama.org.www635.your-server.de/2025/09/welcome-at-a-new-home/#comments

2nd comment, the first one on Palestine thread for the hasbaRats of MoA.

Main change noticed so far is that the username/email is remembered !
I have always had to reenter everytime!

What is that ? Is there something new stored on my device?
Is that good or bad?

Asking for a friend 😁

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 24 2025 10:29 utc | 35

Testing “Compose Keys” and AltGr (en-GB keyboard): á è î õ ü ⅓ ⅝ ₽

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 24 2025 10:30 utc | 36

Big formatting problems on the root page for me on smartphone (haven’t yet tried notebook). Firstly it assumes I have a big screen with long lines and microscopic text; secondly no header, no background, no footer, no columns, no headers/bold etc (essentially, no formatting at all, basically typewriter format); thirdly all posts on the root page run into each other with no gap, no spacer, no line etc.

NONE of the above applies to THIS page.

Identical results with two different browsers Brave and Via.

Like others, I get the raw server url error with both browsers (also, on THIS page, the raw url in the url bar; on the root page I get the domain name in the url bar).

Posted by: BM | Sep 24 2025 11:03 utc | 37

I tried 2 experiments (both browsers, same result):

1. Manually editing editing the url of THIS page in the url box to moonofalabama.org instead of the raw server address, the page does not load (timeout).

PS – that was quick! Root page (with www.) works already (not without www.)

2nd experiment is already redundant!

Posted by: BM | Sep 24 2025 11:25 utc | 38

Congratulations on the move and thank you again for your blessed work, b!

Posted by: Jack M | Sep 24 2025 11:27 utc | 39

https://moonofalabama.org.www635.your-server.de/2025/09/welcome-at-a-new-home/#comments

Making progress though!

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 24 2025 11:38 utc | 40

Posted by: ThouShalt | Sep 24 2025 10:22 utc | 34

Agreed. CJ Hopkins and Vanessa Beely would also probably agree.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 24 2025 11:40 utc | 41

Now showing :

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/09/welcome-at-a-new-home/#comments

In the address bar
👏👏👏👏

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 24 2025 11:41 utc | 42

moonofalabama.org and http://www.moonofalabama.org load with text formating only no graphic elements (background color, images) and clicking on any link (to comment, to further reading, on the blank space of missing graphic header) redirects to the path relatively hoster your-server.de and SSL cert error. Must opt in the browser for ignoring the cert error, then page with the design loads.

I would not have hosted on a German provider. Not at all.

Posted by: Timur | Sep 24 2025 11:42 utc | 43

@all

– The site should now show http://www.moonofalabama.org for all subpages.
– The SSL-problem should also be solved. There should no longer be a security warning.
– Responsive design, i.e. display on mobiles should also be okay

I have tested the above on my devices but yours may vary.

Please check, close and reload the site, and let me immediately know if you still have problems with
– SSL – security warnings
– URLs showing a domain that is different from https://www.moonofalabama.org/
– mashup on mobile devices

Posted by: b | Sep 24 2025 11:46 utc | 44

Great work B. Congrates and thank you.

Posted by: Carrion | Sep 24 2025 11:54 utc | 45

URLs fixed!
That was fast.

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 12:01 utc | 46

All good here now, even randomly checked some monthly archive pages and they are behaving properly as well.

From an end-user viewpoint I would call this a remarkably drama-free migration. Congrats again!

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 24 2025 12:09 utc | 47

URLs fixed!
That was fast.

I brought b a vaping device when he was ill to encourage him to stop smoking. They come with a twisting lock that unlocks by turning the device upside down. He picked it up, looked at it for two seconds, turned it around and opened it before I had said a single word about it.

Posted by: persiflo | Sep 24 2025 12:20 utc | 48

I’m getting security warnings here.
Had to try a couple of browsers just to get a basic page to open up.
https://moonofalabama.org.www635.your-server.de/wp-comments-post.php

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 24 2025 12:26 utc | 49

Please let me know of any problems with this web-site or the blog’s functionality.
b

Testing blockquote.

Posted by: Richard L | Sep 24 2025 12:40 utc | 50

Reposted from the wrong thread, sorry:

Wow! Advancing in leaps and bounds by the hour, b. Congratulations. It is basically working OK for me now.

One formatting hiccup: all comments are indented; also commented blockquotes are indented even further by an excessive amount. On a smartphone, that means all comment text has excessively short lines, and blocktext even more so.

Do make sure you get enough rest, b! I am guessing you have probably been working flat-out to get it up and running so quickly, and no doubt there is still much to iron out, but I hope you won’t neglect your body’s need for adequate rest and recuperation! Perfect can wait! And news articles can also wait!

PS – links in the page header: at present I get only Main, not previous and next article.

Posted by: BM | Sep 24 2025 12:54 utc | 51

Opens up for me now on firefox looking something like the old site.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 24 2025 12:55 utc | 52

@Peter AU1

Please confirm:

Does the mean the site is okay now? No security warning? Correct URLs?

Posted by: b | Sep 24 2025 13:04 utc | 53

Site opens no problems. I’m in Britain

Posted by: will moon | Sep 24 2025 13:19 utc | 54

Strange. On a Linux box running different flavors of Chrome and Firefox everything is loading fine. On my Windoze honeypot (same local network) the main markup file is loading properly from moonofalabama.org, but assets (images, CSS) are still coming from the www635.your-server.de address and being blocked by cert errors.

Maybe there are some DNS changes that have not propagated across the Internet yet?

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 13:22 utc | 55

@William Gruff

that indeed sounds like a DNS propagation issue on your windows machine. Time should fix it.

Posted by: b | Sep 24 2025 13:27 utc | 56

Great work with porting the site.
I get the correct URL but I still get the SSL-security warning.
Browser is Brave v 1.82.170 for Debian Linux.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Sep 24 2025 13:31 utc | 57

@BM

One formatting hiccup: all comments are indented; also commented blockquotes are indented even further by an excessive amount. On a smartphone, that means all comment text has excessively short lines, and blocktext even more so

That is the same comments look and behavior as before. They have always been indented.
I may change that in the future but its not a priority project.

Posted by: b | Sep 24 2025 13:31 utc | 58

b | Sep 24 2025 13:04 utc | 52

It’s good on firefox now. no security warning.
Just checked. Yandex and Chrome browsers still the same security stuff. loads a white page with black writing and blue links. OS I use is still win7

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 24 2025 13:36 utc | 59

As far as I can see, this is entirely usable.

Time for our host to take a break and get some sleep (always in short supply for DevOps).

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 13:37 utc | 60

windows 11 Firefox everything works wonderfully. On Opera, Brave, Edge, and Chrome only text loads, no graphics. It may be that Firefox works because I had accepted the bad cert before

Posted by: dan of steele | Sep 24 2025 13:42 utc | 61

William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 13:37 utc | 59

b has indeed done well.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 24 2025 13:43 utc | 62

Thank you B for performing the migration so neatly and swiftly, while sticking to the original design, making it look like in early internet times. Congratulations! The preview feature is still missing. I don’t know if it is an easy task and if you are interested at all – just an idea – the system might be programmed to replace every comment you delete by a short dummy file – in order to keep the numeration of the rest unchanged.

Posted by: grunzt | Sep 24 2025 13:46 utc | 63

in fact when I look at the code I see many references to the old server, for example

Posted by: dan of steele | Sep 24 2025 13:46 utc | 64

link rel=’stylesheet’ id=’wp-block-library-css’ href=’https://moonofalabama.org.www635.your-server.de/wp-includes/css/dist/block-library/style.min.css?ver=6.8.2′ type=’text/css’ media=’all’ />
<style id='classic-theme-styles-inline-css' type='text/css'

not keeping username anymore however

Posted by: dan of steele | Sep 24 2025 13:48 utc | 65

I saw a near-perfect layout in Brave browser/win11 earlier today, but now the layout is corrupted. I suppose this is just a temporary hickup.

Tried now:
Brave Browser Kubuntu 24.04 : corrupted layout
Brave Browser Win10 : corrupted layout
Brave Browser Win11 : corrupted layout
MS Edge Win10 : corrupted layout

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 24 2025 13:54 utc | 66

The behavour is not 100% stable it seems things change by the minute.
Now I get ok layout in Brave Browser Kubuntu 24.04 but “Not secure” warning
Brave Browser Win10 has corrupt layout but no security warning
Brave Browser Win11 has corrupt layout but no security warning

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 24 2025 14:01 utc | 67

@Norwegian

– The behavour is not 100% stable it seems things change by the minute.
Now I get ok layout in Brave Browser Kubuntu 24.04 but “Not secure” warning
Brave Browser Win10 has corrupt layout but no security warning
Brave Browser Win11 has corrupt layout but no security warning

Are those different (virtual) machines each with their own DNS cache? That would explain that behavior and any DNS update (automatically over time) should fix that.

Posted by: b | Sep 24 2025 14:08 utc | 68

Testing is posts w8thout java.

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 24 2025 14:12 utc | 69

@Dan of Steele

in fact when I look at the code I see many references to the old server, for example

I believe I have now fixed that. Could you please check again?

Posted by: b | Sep 24 2025 14:14 utc | 70

Firefox: site renders properly AFTER I bypass the SSL certificate (looks like a bad/missing CERT)

Bing: same

Safari: site layout looks like style-sheets are missing or otherwise corrupted

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Sep 24 2025 14:14 utc | 71

@Dan of Steele

not keeping username anymore however

I also had that problem but seem to have fixed it.

Please recheck and tell me if it works.

Posted by: b | Sep 24 2025 14:16 utc | 72

@b | Sep 24 2025 14:08 utc | 67

No these are all physical computers in my home network (win11 machine is on VPN)

Status update.
Brave Browser Win10 : Perfect layout now, no security warning
Brave Browser Kubuntu 24.04 : Perfect layout now, but with “Not secure” warning
Brave Browser Win11 : Perfect layout now, no security warning
Win11 Chrome Browser: Perfect layout now, no security warning
Iphone Brave browser: Looks good to me!

This is very promising, much appreciated! (posting from Kubuntu 24.04)

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 24 2025 14:17 utc | 73

Able to post without java script and without cookies (Privacy Browser by stoutner) … 🙂 .

Displaying fine on that, and Berry Browser…posting this from Berry.

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 24 2025 14:20 utc | 74

@73 Ornot

Those are on Android. V 10 or so.

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 24 2025 14:24 utc | 75

Well done B!

works great in all of the browsers I mentioned earlier

Posted by: dan of steele | Sep 24 2025 14:25 utc | 76

@Dan of steele

works great in all of the browsers I mentioned earlier

Be more explicit please. Does that mean that all the issues you had mentioned have disappeared for you?

Posted by: b | Sep 24 2025 14:29 utc | 77

and it keeps my info. Time for a nice cold beer.

Posted by: dan of steele | Sep 24 2025 14:30 utc | 78

I cleared the Brave Browser cache under Kubuntu 24.04 and closed/relaunched Brave.
Layout is now perfect also under Kubuntu, and no more security warning!

It also works using “Dark Reader” Browser extension (as it did on the old site), this is for all the machines mentioned. Only thing missing that I can see is preview.

Very very glad this is looking so good.

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 24 2025 14:31 utc | 79

@b

Congratulations on successful migration!

Is it possible to bring back the “Preview” button?

Also, I’d like to see the line-height CSS property for basic text decreased a bit so the text looks like it did before.

Thank you for your work!

Posted by: S | Sep 24 2025 14:35 utc | 80

@Norwegian

Brave Browser Kubuntu 24.04 : Perfect layout now, but with “Not secure” warning

It sounds like your Kubuntu is slow in updating its DNS cache. Please contact me if that problem persists.

Posted by: b | Sep 24 2025 14:37 utc | 81

It looks like I missed all the excitement.

Good job b

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 24 2025 14:37 utc | 82

Grats on getting the new bar up and running, b and another thank you for doing what you do.

Posted by: robjira | Sep 24 2025 14:37 utc | 83

The corrupted layout is because a file containing a portion of the layout (Cascading Style Sheet) is being referenced from a bad URL, and that URL is not included in the security certificate for the website. As a consequence the browser blocks that file and so doesn’t get layout rules for the site.

For those using Microsoft Winders SE (Southern Edition) try:

1) launch command prompt as Administrator
2) type “ipconfig /flushdns” at the prompt
3) Smash the key
4) Reload MoA
5) Enjoy properly formatted discussion

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 14:38 utc | 84

@b | Sep 24 2025 14:37 utc | 80

See my post Sep 24 2025 14:31 utc | 78, the DNS cache problem is history here, the security warning is gone. All good!

Maybe S @79 has a point regarding line height, but I consider it a very minor thing.

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 24 2025 14:43 utc | 85

Looks good to me. Thanks for all your hard work.

Posted by: horatio | Sep 24 2025 14:45 utc | 86

Awesome work b & any helpers.
Someone knows deadlines!
We owe you big time.
Working well

Posted by: Mercury | Sep 24 2025 14:48 utc | 87

Change for the above

3) Smash the “enter” key

This should work with all Windoze machines.

This problem is due to DNS information being outdated because it does not
propagate instantly and gets cached so bad data tends to stick around past its welcome.

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 14:50 utc | 88

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 24 2025 14:43 utc | 84

Same here.
Cleaning the cache in Brave and relaunching resulted in no more security warning.
Layout is exactly as b4, except for the Preview button.

Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Sep 24 2025 14:55 utc | 89

Wow! Looks great b! I agree with wanting to have the preview button again.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 24 2025 14:56 utc | 90

@William Gruff | Sep 24 2025 14:50 utc | 87

Looks like the equivalent to that on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and similar is

$ sudo resolvectl flush-caches

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 24 2025 14:58 utc | 91

The formatting looks fine on Einkbro and Firefox. I just rebooted. Maybe that helped.

Posted by: Richard L | Sep 24 2025 15:07 utc | 92

It seams that new platform is faster. So far so good.

Posted by: Grey Cloud | Sep 24 2025 15:08 utc | 93

Like the new font size, thanks

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 24 2025 15:15 utc | 94

@psychohistorian

Like the new font size, thanks

Hmm – there should not be a new font-size …

Posted by: b | Sep 24 2025 15:19 utc | 95

Looks all good now.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 24 2025 15:19 utc | 96

Not sure if line height or other, but presentation is clearer and cleaner on smaller screens.

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 24 2025 15:23 utc | 97

I clicked on the MoA link on the home page of my phone and got straight on. The only difference is that there’s no Preview box for the comment panel.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Sep 24 2025 15:25 utc | 98

Firefox on Linux Desktop – no problem here. Good job, b, thank you.

Posted by: MorePain4Cakes | Sep 24 2025 15:28 utc | 99

Thanks, and congrats, b.
Keep doing what you do. We are the better for it.

I don’t see a review button.

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Sep 24 2025 15:31 utc | 100

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