Sometime recently, something in our setup (or in the bitpay API) changed and left us unable to receive notifications of bitcoin payments. The bad news is the payments still went through but the subscriptions were not rewarded on SoylentNews. We realized the error and credited the accounts (there were only 4 such cases) giving extra subscription time to make up for the error.
Bitcoin subscriptions are temporarily disabled until we can work out exactly what happened and avoid it in the future.
Thank you, and our apologies for any inconvenience.
~mrcoolbp and TheMightyBuzzard
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday October 30 2015, @10:18PM
Surprisingly difficult. Generally only our treasurer keeps access to the bitpay/paypal/stripe accounts, so anyone but him checking them would be right out. And given the amount of work we pile on poor mrcoolbp's shoulders plus his day job and non-work life, it's a miracle he has time for it all.
Checking would have helped but honestly I expected someone would have emailed to say "Hey, this sub I paid for didn't get credited to me." Not the case, for whatever reason. On top of that, the bast^W fine gentlefolk over at bitpay had massively changed their api and their web UI does not show most of the details of a payment, so I spent the morning learning their new API and coding up a script to pull the missing invoices in full so we could credit the proper accounts at all. It would have been nice to get an email from BitPay about payment system breaking changes is all I'm saying.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 30 2015, @11:24PM
Yes, but, you're being rational. We aren't rational with junior personnel, we only keep them around to blame things on. I mean - why does any sane man have children? He's got to have someone to blame for the disappearing cookies, the missing ice cream, the broken window, the dent in the fender, etc ad nauseum. If we couldn't blame stuff on kids, we'd never HAVE any kids, right?
You heard NCommander - put mrcoolbp in the dungeon with the Perl code books! And, change his name to mrcollperl, that will teach him!
Meanwhile, if we can raise a half dozen volunteers, we can do a raid on bitpay. I don't know what we'll do there, kick their dog, steal their API, and tip over their vending machines maybe. We'll think of something.
(Score: 3, Funny) by NCommander on Friday October 30 2015, @11:43PM
He does our accounting. Give that or coding in perl, I'll take the perl, kthxbye :)
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