We recently had reports of some 'wonkiness' on the site.
Reports started appearing in our #Soylent channel on IRC about 90 minutes ago. For example, the Main Page would load, but parts of the page (such as the slashboxes on the left-hand side) were missing.
I borked my first attempt, but on the second try successfully restarted apache and slashd on both of our front-end servers: hydrogen and fluorine.
All seems to be working correctly now. If this is not the case for you, you may need to clear the browser cache on your system and/or do a hard reload of the page (e.g. Ctrl+F5). If things are still not right, please reply in the comments and/or pop into channel #dev on IRC and let us know.
I'm not sure what precipitated the behavior; I'll leave that to TheMightyBuzzard or one of the sysadmin folk to investigate. I'm sure they'll fill us in on whatever root cause was found.
OTOH, one cannot entirely rule out a spurious gamma ray that flipped a key bit in memory that caused an avalanche of untrapped events.
You can now return to your usual, spirited discussions.
(Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday May 23 2019, @03:41PM (2 children)
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 23 2019, @06:22PM (1 child)
all comment sections are now flat
(Score: 2) by martyb on Saturday May 25 2019, @12:23PM
I've tried to reproduce this on two different browsers on two different OSs, both logged in and as an Anonymous Coward and cannot reproduce it.
Please be sure you have cleared your cache, check your user settings (do not have "flat" selected as your preferred layout), and also ensure the URL you are using does not contain any layout specification.
Clear your cache and try loading this article [soylentnews.org].
Wit is intellect, dancing.