All tags page is down

April 17, 2006 6:30 PM

http://www.metafilter.com/tags/ gives a connection failure.
posted by blue_beetle to Bugs at 6:30 PM (11 comments total)

Works for me.
posted by cortex at 7:09 PM on April 17, 2006

Works for me too. On a side note, why do these tags [BBC Europe Fiction NASA Newsfilter Philosophy Privacy UK US WWII] appear at the front (after 9/11) instead of in alpha order?
posted by tellurian at 7:21 PM on April 17, 2006

Don't worry, on post it becomes obvious.
posted by tellurian at 7:25 PM on April 17, 2006

nevermind, it's working for me now.
posted by blue_beetle at 7:59 PM on April 17, 2006

But it definitely was broken before. I saw it with me own eyes.
posted by smackfu at 10:04 PM on April 17, 2006

once an hour, it may time out.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:11 PM on April 17, 2006

Wow. Deja Vu.

I now have my suspicions that cortex is actually an 'everything's OK' robot programmed by mathowie.
posted by Otis at 5:45 AM on April 18, 2006

These pages need a

  if ( request.timedout() ) {
    noop(); // Or try again?
  } else {
    update_the_page();
  }

check.
posted by Plutor at 7:17 AM on April 18, 2006

Works for me too. On a side note, why do these tags [BBC Europe Fiction NASA Newsfilter Philosophy Privacy UK US WWII] appear at the front (after 9/11) instead of in alpha order?

mathowie, if you're going to display the tags in lowercase, I think you should force the tags to lowercase before you sort, not after.
posted by onalark at 9:15 AM on April 18, 2006

Good catch onalark, I've fixed this in the hourly function. Plutor, I've written code like that for other periodically updated pages, but I haven't carried it over to the tags page. Doing that now.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:54 AM on April 18, 2006

I don't want to start a whole new thread for it, but I can't get to MeFi threads at the moment; I get:

The web site you are accessing has experienced an unexpected error.
Please contact the website administrator.

The following information is meant for the website developer for debugging purposes.
Error Occurred While Processing Request
Invalid CFML construct found on line 325 at column 35.
ColdFusion was looking at the following text:

>

The CFML compiler was processing:

* an expression beginning with "(", on line 325, column 7.This message is usually caused by a problem in the expressions structure.
* a cfif tag beginning on line 325, column 2.
* a cfif tag beginning on line 325, column 2.
* a cfif tag beginning on line 325, column 2.
* a cfif tag beginning on line 325, column 2.


Browser Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
posted by languagehat at 10:55 AM on April 18, 2006