Front page broken?

January 11, 2006 6:26 AM

Is front page posting broken, or was there just nothing to talk about in the last 11 hours?
posted by smackfu to Bugs at 6:26 AM (16 comments total)

I have nothing to say.
posted by JeffK at 6:46 AM on January 11, 2006

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posted by NinjaPirate at 6:51 AM on January 11, 2006

We have finished filtering the entire internet.
posted by srboisvert at 6:52 AM on January 11, 2006

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posted by caddis at 6:58 AM on January 11, 2006

Just keep hitting F5 enough and something will show up.
posted by octothorpe at 7:06 AM on January 11, 2006

octothorpe, what are you trying to do, get us all arrested?
posted by Gator at 7:07 AM on January 11, 2006

Love comes in spurts.
posted by caddis at 7:10 AM on January 11, 2006

My vote is for broken. I just posed this to the front page, but I can't actually see it on the front page, even after hard reloading..... Very strange.
posted by anastasiav at 7:25 AM on January 11, 2006

Very strange. I see my post of 10:09 but not anastasiav's post of 10:23, yet it is alread seven minutes old.
posted by caddis at 7:30 AM on January 11, 2006

It finally shows up. What's up with this Matt?
posted by caddis at 7:36 AM on January 11, 2006

There are plenty of new posts, they're just all dupes.
posted by nomad at 7:41 AM on January 11, 2006

I had the same delay problem yesterday. I posted the leaders debate thread, it didn't show up for a while, possibly 5 minutes. After 5 minutes went by I thought it must have been me, wrong button maybe, or the fact that I forgot to include tags, so I added tags and tried again. It did eventually show up (at least 11 minutes later, judging from the time stamp on the more inside part), but the double never arrived...
posted by Chuckles at 7:48 AM on January 11, 2006

There's a caching bug at the moment I can't track down. The front page is regenerated every 10 minutes and for some reason my code that flushes the cache when a new post is made is being ignored, so at the moment a new post will appear on the front page anywhere from 0-10 minutes after you make it, even though the thread exists.

I'm hoping to fix it today.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:02 AM on January 11, 2006

maybe it's related to update delays for user pages (which is still happening, but i think it's less than 10min)?
posted by andrew cooke at 9:22 AM on January 11, 2006

The end of the Internet. (An oldie but goodie)
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 11:31 AM on January 11, 2006

yes
posted by caddis at 12:27 PM on January 11, 2006