So the Dev Team has been hard at work fixing up issues with with the 17_02 release. We compiled all of your comments from the 17_02 Meta stories into a large bug and feature request list. We have been working on getting these issues fixed as soon as we can.
You may have noticed some changes over the last week that went out to fix some issues, and we just released some more fixes today.
Here is a list of the major fixes since the last story:
And here are the latest updates:
Continuation of:
Site Update 17_2
Comments Redux
Site Update: The Next Episode
Site Update - Taking a Breather
Outstanding Issues
So if you see any new bugs that you think are related to these changes, or just want to let us know about an ongoing issue, please feel free to comment below.
Here are the currently known bugs that we are working on:
And here are the feature requests:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 15 2017, @03:11PM
What about setting the maximal number of mod points to 6, and handing out a new one every 4 hours for any account that is below 6 points at that time? That would evenly spread it out across the time zones.
Note also that calculation of mod points could be done lazy (assuming that isn't already done anyway): Only when someone accesses the page from his account, he can see and use the mod points; so the code could just fetch the mod points and time of last update from the database (it has to fetch the mod points anyway, and if the time stamp is in the same table, it should not require any additional database lookups), check if any new points have been handed out in between, and if necessary update the points accordingly. At the time of giving out mod points, nothing special would need to happen.
Indeed, the update of stored mod points in the data base would only be required when actually moderating.