If you were asking me yes, the CLI rebuild worked fine. I’m a decent SA and found the fix on the forums here but looks like other forum owners like @pearsonified were severely inconvenienced. 18 hours of downtime, oof.
People talking about staging and production environments are off their gourds. There are lots of non-corporate people hosting Discourse forums on little VMs. “You should be testing in a staging environment” is an insulting, sanctimonious response which does not in any way justify breaking their install. Nothing justifies that.
I just want to emphasize that I appreciate this excellent software is completely free. I’m grateful for that, and the occasional stumbling blocks don’t change my feelings.