There was a software glitch affecting about 250 threads in General Discussion

[Elad]

This discussion thread was locked by Skinner (a host of the Announcements group).

The affected threads were posted roughly between 11:30am ET on Tuesday, Oct 28 and 1:30pm ET Wednesday, Oct 29 (today) in the GD forum only.

We have copied over the affected threads to a bug-free database table, but there will be glitches associated with these threads lingering. These can include bookmark and journal links being broken (delete from your journal/bookmarks, then go back and re-add them), views and recs counter being reset back to 0 (sorry, nothing to be done about it) and a small number of replies being lost.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

[daleanime]

1. Thanks for let us know.....

I'm sure a few of us were doing double takes.

[F4lconF16]

2. Will they become available at some point?

It's fine if not, just wondering

[Hatchling]

3. There is still some glitching going on.

I'm clicking on some threads and getting a page where the posts don't relate and are dated in December 2011

Ie I cliked on molinkos thread " Something to think about when you hear those depressing polls" and got this repsonse:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023333

Went to molinkos profile and clicked the their lasted posted thread and got a thread and post also in December 2011.

[bananas]

5. Now that was funny! nt

[seaglass]

8. That must have been surprising. :-) n/t

[Hatchling]

12. It was.

Especially as the response I was reading kinda made sense. I didn't catch on immediately until I tried to view the other replies.

[littlemissmartypants]

23. I miss redqueen. nt

[herding cats]

4. Ah, this is why the "Greatest" thread links I'm clicking on are sending me back in time.

I wondered why they where showing posts from 2011. Thanks for letting us know, it saves from wasting your time in ATA.

[mercuryblues]

6. no you

are actually going back in time. Your mission is to hit the correct date and vote multiple time for Obama. You are off by a year. get it right, your country needs you! Oh. and by the way will you pick me up a loaf of wheat bread?

[freshwest]

10. The bread would not be good by now, though...

[sheshe2]

27. I thought I was going crazy....

just got home and can't read some things in GD or link to my posts and OP's last night! I lost my EW thread!

LOL~ I went back to one of your Op's posted in 2011! Yikes!

[freshwest]

29. Oooh! One of mine? Post the linky winky!

[sheshe2]

34. 82 rec's yet no comments!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023010

Well 83 now, I just rec'd it. Good OP and perfect timing right now.

GOTV2014!

freshwest~

[freshwest]

38. Thanks, odd one, that... Very strange. Sorry about your thread going missing. Should back them up in

the BOG. It's allowed to post an OP in 3 places without it being spam, AFAIK. And repeating some replies don't count if they are on topic and tailored to each situation, IMO.

[herding cats]

17. I'll be sure to grab that bread ...

Anything else you need to stock up on at 2011 prices while I'm there?

If you want a laugh go to the Home Page and click on Skinners post in The Left Column. I thought he'd finally given over to the pressure of running the sight when I clicked it!

[mercuryblues]

49. that is funny

I bought a really cool Red Sox t-shirt at a store that year. I spilled deck stain on it this summer. I can not find one like it anywhere. I love it because it is a lightweight fabric, so not too hot. Can you please get me another?

[marym625]

28. and I am suddenly 3 different people

Replying to threads I never saw. Very weird

[Autumn]

7. I was positive you had finally perfected time travel.

I guess we will just have to wait.

[Scuba]

9. Thanks for the info, and all your hard work keeping DU running smoothly.

[barbtries]

11. yeah over on the right,

the threads are not what they purport to be and they may have close to 100 recs but no replies. i was going to watch the video of the 100 catcalls in a day. oh well.

[pnwmom]

19. I can find the video for you by going through G.D. instead of "my posts."

I'll find it and send it to you.

[barbtries]

22. thank you,

it was very sweet of you to go to all that trouble!

[pnwmom]

26. No trouble. I was curious about where the thread had disappeared to.

I'm glad it wasn't some hacking job, as I'd feared at first.

[progressoid]

13. That's it.

I'm never coming back to this site again

...until after dinner.

[tomm2thumbs]

14. Thanks for the post - wondering if it can be made a sticky post at the top of 'latest threads'

just to save ya'll some work from idiots like me who post about it! hahahah

[woo me with science]

52. +1 I think it should be at the top of General Discussion and maybe even all the major forums.

I don't usually go to the announcements, so I wouldn't even have known about this if another DUer hadn't mentioned it.

Recs are being misattributed. If people recced one of the deleted threads, their rec has now been applied to whatever random thread the link goes to now. Even worse, random posts come up that are clearly from the middle of threads, but they come up WITH a rec box but without any link to the OP. So...it appears you are reccing the post...but are you actually reccing an OP that isn't visible?

I just followed a link to such a post, and I disagree with the post itself, but I think I loved the OP it was replying to. So do I unrec it because the post stands alone now, or rec it assuming that the rec still or will eventually apply to the thread I remember?

People should be aware of this so they can decide where they want their names attached and where they don't.

[woo me with science]

15. Not sure I understand the part about re-adding.

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We have copied over the affected threads to a bug-free database table, but there will be glitches associated with these threads lingering. These can include bookmark and journal links being broken (delete from your journal/bookmarks, then go back and re-add them), views and recs counter being reset back to 0 (sorry, nothing to be done about it) and a small number of replies being lost.

Where are the threads/posts now, and when/how can we find and re-add them as per your instructions?

Right now ten of my fifteen most recently recced threads seem to be gone...or at least the links to them from "My Recommendations" go to random posts from 2011. That's a lot of gold from DU missing. I'm glad you have backups.

Thanks in advance for help figuring out how to do the re-add.

Also, this is important: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1013&pid=4359

[Paper Roses]

16. Do you mean this message?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021647

And I was so proud of the rec's...oh well, so it goes.

[tosh]

18. I *REALLY* want to read this:

That Moment When Mitch McConnell Put The FINAL NAIL In His POLITICAL COFFIN 88 recs : By Segami

Is there a secret way to access it, or must I wait?

I'm so cOnFuSed!

[Make7]

24. Here's a link (and how I found it):

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025730143

If you click on a thread link from the Home, Greatest, or Latest pages (or even a google search) and it takes you to the wrong thread; it should at least take you to the proper forum (I think all the affected threads are from GD). Click on that forum to view the threads and then sort them by thread title. Click on the page number navigation links until you get to the page that has the thread in question sorted alphabetically by the title.

[freshwest]

59. I replied on that link. All the other replies have been lost. It didn't kick the thread, either...

[tosh]

61. Thanks!

That was easy!

[tomm2thumbs]

30. oops - repost

(nevermind)

[woo me with science]

20. *******The glitch is sending recs to the wrong threads*********

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[font size=3]Everyone, check your recs! This glitch is sending your recommendations to the wrong threads.[/font size]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1013&pid=4390

Links to posts and threads that were deleted in the glitch now lead to posts from 2011. Apparently, a rec given to an OP that subsequently disappeared has instead now been applied to whatever thread the link goes to now.

Even worse, random posts come up that are clearly from the middle of threads, but they come up WITH a rec box but without any link to the OP. So...it appears you are reccing the post...but are you actually reccing an OP that isn't visible?

People should be aware of this so they can decide where they want their names attached and where they don't.

I recommend that everyone check your recs carefully and remove your name where needed.

[Fuddnik]

21. We never had software glitches before Obamacare!

Gotta find some way to blame this on him.

[Kali]

25. I am still getting a glitch

clicking last post from several profiles sends me to random posts from other people dated 2011.

[Cha]

31. Hi Elad.. When I go to my Posts links all I get so far is a link to "fishwax".. nothing to do with

my Posts at all!

And, of course.. a Thread I made last on the Huge Turnout for Mary Burke and President Obama has lost all its Rec.. but, it's also infected right now. I replied to "hue" twice and it ended up under Hekate's post..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5730872

And, Major Hogwash just posted to NBachers and it ended up under a post of mine.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5732769

Help!

Good Luck in Fixing this.. and Thank You!

[sheshe2]

36. My Mary and Obama

Op is still okay...yet I lost my EW Op.

I got home a short time ago and thought I lost my mind, Cha!

[Cha]

44. Yeah, it was General Discussion that was affected. I had 40 Recs last night when I went to sleep

this morning I had 1.. oh well, it's up to 6 now. LOL

I've been so busy trying to get this straightened out I haven't had time to go check and see if I can get to any other of "My Posts&quot during that timeline) besides "fishwax"!

Btw, that "transcript" you posted in the EW thread was great.. I posted it around on another thread and got 3 replies but I haven't been able to get to them YET!

[sheshe2]

47. I still can't get back to your OP ...

I tried my comment and your thread in GD. I am still on time travel mode. I go back to 2011.



Thanks for posting the EW transcript! It was indeed awesome!

Cha!

[Cha]

48. Right.. Fishwax 2011 for me.. what I did was just find my OP(it was on the 2nd page) but now it's

on the 1st.. and reply that way.

Just tried again.. Yep, Fishwax has all of my posts! This is the one to the Transcript.. I'm going to go find it and I'll report back.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4703

Frustration she

[Cha]

50. I guess I'll have to forget it, she.. even when I found it.. it shows no one replied to me.. and you

can see by the thread that it was a perfect place for it..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5731386

Fishwax is in my journal, too!

[jalan48]

32. Thanks

Thank you, I wondered how my post was redirected to a topic I hadn't commented on.

[freshwest]

33. It's Grovelbot's revenge on DU3!

[littlemissmartypants]

41. ..

[jwirr]

35. So that is why I had several people who answered my posts and I had no idea what they were

talking about. Interesting.

[ChazInAz]

37. That explains it.

I thought this was Facebook, for a while there.

[Kali]

40. !

[Cha]

46. Rofl

[sheshe2]

39. Thanks Obama~

Thanks for all you do Elad and that comes from the bottom of my heart. We all appreciate your work~

[littlemissmartypants]

42. Yes, but do we have his moves?

I love my president.
And I love DU, warts and all.

Happy Halloween.
~ Lmsp 🙅

[littlemissmartypants]

43. This thread is glitchy. eom

🙅

[littlemissmartypants]

45. Bug free database not available

In tropical climates or summer months.


Do we really reset clocks soon?

???

~ littlemissmartypants 🙇

[woo me with science]

51. Everyone, check your recs! This glitch is misattributing recommendations.

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Links to posts and threads that were deleted in the glitch now link to posts from 2011. Apparently, a rec given to a post that subsequently disappeared has instead now been applied to whatever thread the link goes to now.

Here's how I discovered it. While browsing "My Recommendations," I found that ten of the links to the fifteen most recent threads I recced were now mistitled and led to random threads. Then I realized that all those threads had recs from me!

These included threads I would never have recced, including a troll thread describing DU as "by far the worst website I have looked at lately" and a thread praising Obama as a populist.

I recommend that everyone check your rec lists and read the titles carefully, follow the links, and unrec whatever needs unreccing. Nobody here should risk having their name associated with a random post that may happen to be insensitive, bigoted, or reflective of political views they do not share.

Even worse, random posts come up that are clearly from the middle of threads, but they come up WITH a rec box but without any link to the OP. So...it appears you are reccing the post...but are you actually reccing an OP that isn't visible?

People should be aware of this so they can decide where they want their names attached and where they don't.

I hope the old threads will be back and easily findable soon so that re-recs can be made and our history here is intact. There were some excellent threads that deserve to be searchable and accessible to everyone.

[Callmecrazy]

53. WHAT THE HELL?

I'm a Star Member! This shouldn't be happening to ME! Let the freeloaders who don't contribute money to this site get all... whatever.

Jeebus Crust.


end of rant



Oh, and in case this gets misposted.

[littlemissmartypants]

54. HAHAHA!!!!!!!

[littlemissmartypants]

55. Kicketty. Kick.

I am reporting no problem with my rec list.

I am a little disappointed.

~ littlemissmartypants 🙇

[niyad]

56. still having problems

[niyad]

57. the problem is still continuing at this time, elad.

[woo me with science]

58. I probably should have posted this here, rather than in GD.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025733915

I hope you can restore the thread.

[Aerows]

60. I'm guessing it was the cat day thread?

It displayed something like 90 posts, but you only saw ten of them. And none of them were on ignore, either.

[Curmudgeoness]

65. That was where I saw the glitch.

Most bizarre. You broke DU!!!!

[Aerows]

66. I guess I did.

LOL!

[muriel_volestrangler]

62. If people start recommending the 'fixed' threads, will they get back onto the Greatest page?

When would the '24 hours' start? I think a lot of good threads are getting lost.

[rug]

63. Hey, I was posting my recipe for rye bread in Cooking & Baking.

Where the hell is this?

[eppur_se_muova]

64. I clicked on a thread, and the title of the OP changed ...

the body of the text had nothing to do with either title as far as I could tell.

It was a post by Third Way Manny ...

So I said, "well, OK" and never realized it was a glitch. :/

[uppityperson]

67. I did that on a couple odd posts too, then had to self delete once I figured it out. It was very odd

though since the weird post looked like an op of wtf sort of statements

[NYC_SKP]

68. Just got a PM for my jury service and the link in the message goes to different reply.

And not to the reply that I adjudicated.

Is that part of this problem or something else?