Status of Site Fixes as of February 3

And the time posted did just show up on my post.

Very weird. It is not showing on the threads I follow either.

That is odd. Post a query to Terry and she'll look into it.

I like the preview button to correct any problems.

What's the "push pin" icon for "stickies"?
What does the "push pin" do?
I think the "push pin" icon is in front of the first few threads on a forum that stays there (sticky).

1lisac and frostweed, can you get me some URLs to the threads where the date/time stamp is "wonky"? (for lack of a better technical term :-).

These threads have no times...

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1414882/

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1414765/

This message was edited Feb 29, 2016 11:21 AM

Yes it is on the Texas forum http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1415515/

Yes, the "push pins" are for stickies. I really like them a lot! I even commented previously on it. It makes it so much easier to skim past them to the current threads. Before they were there I used to look at the dates which was slower and more confusing. Great addition. Kudos to whoever came up with the idea.

Terry, this thread http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1103477/
doesn't disappear from my list when I visit it. It was last viewed on Feb. 3, when I noticed that it was stuck in the "new" position. Other threads that I visit disappear as they should, and appear when there are new posts as they should. It's a different problem than "wonky."

I deleted this. Thinking about it, this was not a proper location either. I have it copied for a later time, if I can determine the best way for it to be seen.



This message was edited Mar 1, 2016 3:12 PM

Here is another thread that will not disappear from my list after I visit it.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1407511/

We are having the problem with the prehistoric timestamps again. I just killed two threads in the Plant ID forum when I replied to them. (What happens is the "negative" timestamp causes the thread to move to the beginning of the forum list (pre-2000) so it effectively disappears from view.)

OMG! Posts are being 'miraculously' moved to the correct locations and given dates from this century!

It just happened here, too.

Edited to add Star date

5 March 2016 ay 7:36 pm EST

This message was edited Mar 5, 2016 7:38 PM

Strangely enough, though, threads like this one have not moved back to their proper locations yet, even though their last comments now have correct dates. Nonetheless, we do seem to be making progress finally, and this does appear to indicate we are not on adrift on that ghost ship after all.

Whoa...this is odd, especially since on my Home Page they still show dates of 5200...hmmm.

Home page dates haven't caught up yet, but proper dates are on posts and they are in the right order.

Powers that be are on the trail - be thankful and happy for that.

I dunno...I was starting to get used to living in a virtual world at the beginning of time.

Actually, the thread dates on the main forum page still show -0001 for threads with recent activity. This thread is still on page 150.

Ditto VV, I'm thankful and happy...my thread watcher has time stamp of 5200, I'm just glad that somebody is doing something. I doubt they will show their face there will be a stampede of complaints...even tho they are aware of the problems. Just thankful the problems are getting fixed. I kind of liked being able to post on the first page. Lol

Terry, are there any explanations of what has been going on the past few days?

Sunday, March 6, 9:30 am

Music from the Twilight zone??? Hmmmm...........better than the "Jaws" music.............LOL

How about music from "Back to the Future" since we're time traveling back and forth through different time periods?

I see that the "watched threads" do not disappear after reading UNLESS you make a post to it. That's dumb.

They have fixed the problem of new posts having the Nov 30, -0001 date and of those posts going to the beginning of the thread. That was arguably the biggest problem, and it looks like the techs must have worked OT (well into Saturday evening) to fix that.

However, several problems remain from the Wed evening snafu. These include: (1) failure of the Thread Watcher to clear threads after new posts have been read and incorrect dates on thread lists, both (2) the 5200 date seen on the homepage list and (3) Nov 30, -0001 which is still showing up for the last post date on threads with posts made since Wed evening, (4) the latter issue still causing current threads to remain at the end of the thread lists.

My guess is the remaining issues are probably seen as less urgent, and the techs are most likely taking a day off today before getting back to work on those issues on Monday (hopefully).

The threads are disappearing for me whether I post or not. I'm just happy that things are moving in the right direction. Obviously this fix isn't going to happen with the push of a button.

But I bet the problems all started with the push of a button. Or click of the mouse, if you will..........

For some reason this is reminding me of watching my Windows 95 computer defrag!

IB workday starts by 10 am Pacific Coast time. So unless we hear something from Terry or Melody before, I wouldn't look for much before supper time here.

Looks like any thread posted to still sees that thread go to the end of the forum thread list. For instance, if I wasn't 'watching' this thread, I would be hard pressed to find it as it is now on the last page of forum threads, but not at the very end.

If you were going to send a 'group blast' dmail to fellow DG members as an alert/what to do...what would you say?

Guys, I'm sorry - I had a very busy weekend and wasn't online much at all. I did see an SOS from Alison on Saturday when the timestamp issue was discovered, but she was working with the techs on it, and when I checked back in, the threads seemed to have their dates displaying properly. We are sorting through the other issues with threads disappearing, so if you have one that you can send me a link to, I can add it to the list of examples for the techs.

How could the timestamp issue have not been discovered until Saturday, when it was reported by multiple users THREE DAYS prior to that???

Terry, it's been three months since this "update" rolled through DG. How in the world can these fixes be done and then create such problems? And without anyone seeing what was going on.

I sent four different messages on Thursday and Friday - one to you, one to Alison and two through the contact link at the bottom of the pate. Does no one check the inquiries through the contact link? Whatever happened it happened on Wednesday. Why isn't one message to admin not enough to get something done?

I know people posted messages on the FB page and again no response.

Seems like a repeat of last time.

So how about a new thread with the updates for March?

The threads aren't disappearing (that I know of). Current threads, those with new posts after Wed evening, had moved to or near the end of the thread lists due to the Nov 30, -0001 date problem. I see that the techs have now fixed that problem so that the 'missing' threads have returned to their proper locations in the lists.

It looks like they have fixed the other remaining problems we had noted since things went wonky on Wed evening.

"Watched threads" are no longer updating, AGAIN....

Terry the threads aren't disappearing, bc of the time stamp they are now on the last page of the forums. Posts weren't disappearing they were at the beginning of the threads. You would know this if you had read any of the posts that started on Wed evening. Why can the members figure this out but not the management?

Hmm. My Thread Watcher appears to be updating properly now.

Plant ID forum shows the last post was made one minute into the current future. It hasn't said there were any new posts all day, here (and that simply is not the case).