Connection Timeout members

February 14, 2005 4:38 PM

Upon refreshing the home page, I noticed that MeFi has "Connection Timeout members". Searching the archives makes it seem like I may be unique in seeing this minor bug.
posted by johannes to Bugs at 4:38 PM (6 comments total)

I see it as well, running Firefox 1.0 on Windows XP Media Center Edition.
posted by chiababe at 4:57 PM on February 14, 2005

I've seen it periodically.

Including now.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:03 PM on February 14, 2005

I see it now, too. FF 1.0+ Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050204 Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)

the G4 optimized version
posted by mwhybark at 7:26 PM on February 14, 2005

gone on refresh.
posted by mwhybark at 7:26 PM on February 14, 2005

I see it too right now in Safari/Mac OSX. Cute. Not gone on refresh.
posted by tracicle at 8:31 PM on February 14, 2005

It means the database server couldn't be reached when the number of members was being counted and cached, which happens periodically. Odd that you couldn't find it in the archives, I'm pretty sure this has been discussed before.
posted by fvw at 12:16 AM on February 15, 2005