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Quick Notes From Behind The Scenes

posted by NCommander on Tuesday February 18 2014, @12:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the holy-cow-1k-users dept.

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.

 
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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by stormwyrm on Tuesday February 18 2014, @01:32AM

    by stormwyrm (717) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @01:32AM (#1264) Journal

    They're eyeglasses. It's a classic icon from the old Slashdot, and was in higher resolution back then, or was it more obvious back then because my screen in 1997 was only 800x600 at best, not 1920x1080 like it is today? I don't think I've seen that icon used on the original site in years; seems it went out of use long before the Dice acquisition.

    I wonder if they'll revive the old Bill Gates Borg icon for Microsoft stories; can't quite remember when that disappeared, probably around the time Gates announced his retirement.

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  • (Score: 1) by glyph on Tuesday February 18 2014, @02:05AM

    by glyph (245) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @02:05AM (#1286)

    IIRC they only changed the borg icon fairly recently. It was an anachronism to be sure... but that's the way we liked it.

    • (Score: 1) by LowID on Tuesday February 18 2014, @08:16AM

      by LowID (337) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @08:16AM (#1477)

      The replacement icon should be Sergey Brin wearing Google glasses. New website, we should keep up with the times.

      Oh, and first post on SN.