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Hey, just a heads up on our Day 1 status. I've made some tweaks to the moderation script to handle the surge of users we've gotten, so modpoints should start flowing more easily. I'm making a few more tweaks right now that should get this working as expected (I am going to have to purge out the point in system to reset the script though, so if you have modpoints right now, don't be surprised if they suddenly vanish into the ether.
We know there have been some issues with both registration and submitting stories. On the registration front, some of our emails have been marked as spam, so if you're not getting them, check spam filters. In addition, for the last half an hour, we had a problem with a human confirmation check breaking, which just got cleared. We'll keep you apprised of any updates to this. As for story submissions, this looks like an artifact of a human confirmation script that got re-enabled when we went live. It should be working properly now for logged in users, as well as AC, though I'll be keeping an eye on it. I hope to have a more verbose tech write-up of the site sometime tonight.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by hatta on Tuesday February 18 2014, @12:42AM
Early on there was some talk about preserving UIDs. Is that still something you are doing?
(Score: 4, Funny) by vbraga on Tuesday February 18 2014, @12:53AM
Nonsense, I've went from 5 to 3! Keep it that way!
(Score: 1) by demonlapin on Tuesday February 18 2014, @03:11AM
(Score: 1) by mmontour on Tuesday February 18 2014, @03:48AM
No change for me in base 10, but I did drop one binary digit (2208 to 1104).
(Score: 1) by cesarb on Tuesday February 18 2014, @11:24AM
I started reading before there were UIDs, back when you didn't need to register. I thought the registration was a fad, so I only registered much later (5-digit UID starting with 1).
Either that, or my memory is faulty; this all happened last century.
(Score: 1) by monster on Tuesday February 18 2014, @02:57PM
Old time lurker/AC on Slashdot here, too. When I bothered to register, the user count already had 7 digits, later I lost the password and the authentication system didn't recognize the user nor email address (go figure).
Where is the bug-tracker? The button to check if a username is available doesn't seem to work (nothing happens). Tested with Firefox, IE and Iceweasel.
(Score: 1) by cesarb on Tuesday February 18 2014, @05:00PM
http://dev.soylentnews.org/tracker/?group_id=6 [soylentnews.org] I believe. And I think I already saw that bug reported there.
(Score: 1) by monster on Tuesday February 18 2014, @05:51PM
Thanks. And you are right, it's already reported as bug #12.
(Score: 1) by dilbert on Tuesday February 18 2014, @01:05AM
I do not believe they will be preserving UID's. I've been wrong before though.
IMO, New site, new management, new nicks/uids.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Khyber on Tuesday February 18 2014, @03:13AM
The option AFAIK is on the table but it doesn't really seem like the option is much desired. I know I certainly DGAF, though my UID was inside the last remnants of the golden age.
Destroying Semiconductors With Style Since 2008, and scaring you ill-educated fools since 2013.
(Score: 1) by mechanicjay on Tuesday February 18 2014, @12:18PM
Yeah, there was a discussion on how we could make it work. I personally, kind of don't see the point. Like was said above, it's a new site -- let's embrace that and make it our own, let's not worry about some silly thing like a UID from a legacy system.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.