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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: 1) by bspar on Tuesday February 18 2014, @03:12PM

    by bspar (973) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @03:12PM (#1641)

    That was great of you to take your time to go over all of that! I hope the admins can get around to reading your comment - I sure learned something this morning :)

  • (Score: 1) by Vanderhoth on Tuesday February 18 2014, @03:41PM

    by Vanderhoth (61) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @03:41PM (#1656)

    Thanks, I've been in on SoylentNews from the beginning. Mostly offering advice for if we decided, or decide, to turf SlashCode. I couldn't get it running because it uses an outdated version of perl and mod_perl for Apache. I'm not a perl guy.

    A site like this could be quite a nightmare, a lot of different people using a lot of different technologies with a lot of different browsers. Mobile, desktop, tablet, CSS on/off, JavaScript (glad they're staying away from JS for the moment), security, databases, backend language there's a lot to consider.

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