posted by
NCommander
on Wednesday April 09 2014, @01:32AM
from the yay-for-old-slashcode-bugs dept.
We've been dealing with a long standing issue involving a significant percentage of users not seeing some articles posted on the homepage. After several rounds of debugging, paulej72 *finally* found the underlying cause. Inside slashcode, there's a function that writes user preferences to the database, but this function doesn't do a lot of sanity checking. As part of the normal options, you can disable specific authors from appearing on the index, but due to an unrelated misconfiguration, this list wasn't properly populated (due to Slashcode having seperate vars for "author" and "is_admin"). The upshot of this is if you edited your preferences at all, it would write out an incomplete list of authors to the database, which would cause a bunch of articles to simply not show up.
We've applied a workaround for now, but this entire bit of logic needs to be rewritten to be less crap. Since we can't easily determine the garbage from legit users settings, we have blown away the variable on all users for the time being; the upshot is if you were manually filtering out an author, you'll have to reset it. Once we have a proper fix in place, we'll drop it into a point release, reset the user table again, and drop another announcement.
I apologize for any inconvenience.
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Gosh, I find that hard to imagine. You have the subject, and you have the feed code. Isn't the summary right there, next to the subject? I don't understand how it isn't just adding the summary to the RSS data.
(Score: 1) by kwerle on Wednesday April 09 2014, @02:13AM
What about the rss feed - are you not posting anything other than the headline on purpose?
(Score: 2, Informative) by paulej72 on Wednesday April 09 2014, @03:50AM
RSS fixes are on the todo list, but it is not an easy fix. Needs a lot of work to fix properly.
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(Score: 1) by kwerle on Wednesday April 09 2014, @11:45PM
Gosh, I find that hard to imagine. You have the subject, and you have the feed code. Isn't the summary right there, next to the subject? I don't understand how it isn't just adding the summary to the RSS data.
(Score: 0) by terrymaster77 on Wednesday April 09 2014, @04:04AM
posting for the first time to +1 this ^ - please add the summary to the RSS feed!