AskMe Errors January 12, 2006 10:52 AM   Subscribe

What just happened to AskMefi? For about five minutes all the insides had the "nothing to see here" page or a strange error page. Anyone else? I thought my work had finally gotten around to banning it. I started working on my resume...
posted by hellbient to Bugs at 10:52 AM (33 comments total)

Same for me.
posted by Witty at 10:53 AM on January 12, 2006


It was scary. Another minute and I woud've started crying.
posted by hellbient at 10:54 AM on January 12, 2006


It was scary. Another minute and I would've started crying.
posted by hellbient at 10:55 AM on January 12, 2006


like i said...
posted by hellbient at 10:55 AM on January 12, 2006


Matt's doing some plumbing this morning. Just a brief water shutoff, probably.
posted by cortex at 11:00 AM on January 12, 2006


It's weird how it shows answers on the front page but there isn't anything inside. There isn't anything inside.
posted by OmieWise at 11:04 AM on January 12, 2006


Matt added the code that lets users see the reason for deletion on AskMe.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 11:07 AM on January 12, 2006


Not nearly as scary as MetaChat's case of the jruns.
*shivers*
posted by If I Had An Anus at 11:07 AM on January 12, 2006


Projects seems to be down righ tnow.
posted by killdevil at 11:08 AM on January 12, 2006


err, "right now."
posted by killdevil at 11:09 AM on January 12, 2006


Jeez, for the last time already, the dot means that you should paypal me $100.
posted by Saucy Intruder at 11:15 AM on January 12, 2006


Yay Matt!
posted by grateful at 11:21 AM on January 12, 2006


I'll preempt the next Metatalk question, "Matt where can we see deleted posts?"
posted by geoff. at 11:22 AM on January 12, 2006


Ok, I'm done, things should be back to normal.

Two things required quick re-writes of much of the code: timezone support across ask mefi and the deleted reasons showing up. I also added the open new links thing, but everything should be back to normal now.

If you spot any weird CF errors today, be sure and post them here so I can fix them quick.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:30 AM on January 12, 2006


Projects and the tag subdomains aren't working.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 11:32 AM on January 12, 2006


mathowie: "...timezone support across ask mefi and the deleted reasons showing up."

So you're saying that MeTa and AskMe threads will now be deleted like MeFi, and not retconned into nothingness?
posted by Plutor at 11:41 AM on January 12, 2006


that's exactly what I'm saying Plutor. Look at the link Jessamyn posted above in a comment.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:50 AM on January 12, 2006


my dns server is down at the moment, so projects and tags have disappeared momentarily.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:51 AM on January 12, 2006


Thank you for maknig these long requested changes. A series of smaller changes that lead to more consistency and ease of use. Cheers.
posted by raedyn at 12:02 PM on January 12, 2006


So you're saying that MeTa and AskMe threads will now be deleted like MeFi, and not retconned into nothingness?

that's exactly what I'm saying Plutor.


cool beans, matt! thank you!
posted by quonsar at 12:20 PM on January 12, 2006


ok, the subdomains should all be working again, including projects.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:24 PM on January 12, 2006


This is really good, thanks Matt.
posted by NinjaPirate at 12:28 PM on January 12, 2006


I'm really looking forward to reading all the deleted questions once I figure out how to find them.
posted by matildaben at 12:35 PM on January 12, 2006


Matt added the code that lets users see the reason for deletion on AskMe.

Yee haw!
posted by deborah at 12:36 PM on January 12, 2006


Perhaps we could take up a donation for a staging server...
posted by Caviar at 12:45 PM on January 12, 2006


...once I figure out how to find them.

Look for post numbers out of sequence and fill in the gaps. There's a post #30685 and a #30863, so #30864 must have been deleted. You could use this to find any old deleted posts, assuming they're still in the database. I'm to lazy to check that assumption. I'll leave it as an exercise for others.
posted by TimeFactor at 12:53 PM on January 12, 2006


I'm trying to mark a comment as the best answer in this thread: http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/27731

and I'm getting this error:
Error Executing Database Query.
[Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Procedure 'askmeficomments' expects parameter '@timezone', which was not supplied.

Resources:

* Enable Robust Exception Information to provide greater detail about the source of errors. In the Administrator, click Debugging & Logging > Debugging Settings, and select the Robust Exception Information option.
* Check the ColdFusion documentation to verify that you are using the correct syntax.
* Search the Knowledge Base to find a solution to your problem.

Browser Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Remote Address 170.20.11.116
Referrer http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/27731
Date/Time 12-Jan-06 12:51 PM
And yes, I've cleared my cookies and logged back in, and I still get the same error.
posted by bshort at 12:55 PM on January 12, 2006


"To" has to 'o's? To much trouble.
posted by TimeFactor at 12:59 PM on January 12, 2006


Matt gets the Busy Beaver award today.
posted by JeffK at 1:11 PM on January 12, 2006


OK, I wasn't tooo lazy to look for myself a little bit. There are both "Nothing to see here" threads with no comments and "This post was deleted for the following reason" threads with comments. I don't know what is the difference.

(And anonymous questions are numbered out of sequence. And "Previous questions" paging won't go farther back than February 17 of last year.)
posted by TimeFactor at 1:35 PM on January 12, 2006


Ditto to bshort's problem above. (Different thread, obviously.)
posted by staggernation at 1:38 PM on January 12, 2006


This is a very nice pony. Thanks, Matt.
posted by languagehat at 2:47 PM on January 12, 2006


Thanks for these new features and improvements Matt
posted by blag at 3:20 PM on January 12, 2006


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