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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 snailboat on Tuesday February 18 2014, @03:45AM

    by snailboat (1095) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @03:45AM (#1367)

    Maybe they're waiting to sign up until they get an answer. (Or not. I have no idea.)

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +1  
       Interesting=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Interesting' Modifier   0  
    Total Score:   2  

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 18 2014, @09:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 18 2014, @09:01PM (#1906)

    That is it, exactly. I am interested in registering, but want to know if I'll get spammed.

    • (Score: 1) by demonlapin on Tuesday February 18 2014, @11:05PM

      by demonlapin (925) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @11:05PM (#2008) Journal
      It's called mailinator, use it.

    • (Score: 1) by snailboat on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:29AM

      by snailboat (1095) on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:29AM (#3126)

      FWIW, right now I'm getting emails containing each day's stories. I didn't opt in, and I see no way to opt out.

      Luckily, the preferences do have a way to include my ICQ UIN! Yippee!