Over the past week we've had at least three occurrences of this particular bug crop up. It's currently already fixed but I thought I'd fill you lot in just in case it got you too and you haven't noticed yet.
On the subscription page there are two radio buttons if you're logged in. One is to subscribe for yourself and one is to give a gift subscription. For some reason they were both set unchecked. If you didn't check one your subscription would to go NCommander's non-admin account, mcasadevall. It beats the complete hell out of me why this would be the default but it is.
If you've purchased a subscription recently please check that you got credit for it. If you didn't please let us know either here or via email.
~TMB
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(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday February 21 2018, @12:38AM (1 child)
There HAS to be a default of some kind, as not all contributors will wish to be recognized.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday February 21 2018, @01:21AM
Oh that's the proper default for the webpage. I was talking about the "if all else fails" default in the backend code.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by black6host on Wednesday February 21 2018, @01:16AM (5 children)
I bought a years subscription yesterday but my subscribe page still shows an expiration date back in 2015. I'm pretty sure the radio button was checked for me as I looked at that section carefully as I did not want to do a gift. Still not showing a current sub though.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday February 21 2018, @01:23AM (1 child)
Taken care of.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Funny) by sbgen on Wednesday February 21 2018, @03:24AM
Now THAT is a quick service!
Warning: Not a computer expert, but got to use it. Yes, my kind does exist.
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Wednesday February 21 2018, @01:28AM (1 child)
Same. The transaction didn't show as completed until today if that matters.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday February 21 2018, @01:54AM
Sorted.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Wednesday February 21 2018, @03:29PM
> I'm pretty sure the radio button was checked for me as I looked at that section carefully
Me too.
(Score: 2) by Geezer on Wednesday February 21 2018, @07:08AM (2 children)
Payment was cleared Feb 20, 2018 19:36:16 EST, and sub renewal is yet to show in user profile.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday February 21 2018, @11:33AM (1 child)
Good to go.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Geezer on Wednesday February 21 2018, @12:28PM
Thanks!
(Score: 1) by sante on Wednesday February 21 2018, @10:37AM (2 children)
Tried to contact admin as instructed.
Mail to 'admin' could not be delivered: "Too much spam [...]"
Please contact me using the email address for my account.
Thanks.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday February 21 2018, @11:39AM
Done.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday February 22 2018, @06:28PM
They told me the same thing, too much Spam. I didn't EMAIL them, I don't EMAIL. But they sent me Messages. To tell me I Spam too much. Asking very nicely, can I Spam less. Or there will be some form of punishment. Let me tell you, they left a Spam mod on, a few weeks ago. I think it was a few weeks. But I WHINED and I WON, they took it off. And that was the only one in a few months. I think it was months. I wrote about the USS Ford, about the digital catapult on the Ford. On the story about me and about the Ford. And they said that was Spam, very unfair! And some other times, also unfair. Because I don't Spam. Unless, you know, putting my SMS shortcode -- the 88022 -- and putting my website turns all my tweets into Spam. But, the last Spam mod they didn't take away was MONTHS ago, and now the Messages calling me a Spammer. Maybe, probably, because I say Spam modding is VERY DUMB. Because I keep saying that. And, obviously, the administrators don't agree. But let me tell you, subscribing doesn't get you much. It lets you see old tweets. And it brings a lot of money to the administrators -- very important, we all need to make a living. And maybe when they get ready to punish you they tell you more nicely about it. Whoever attacked the World Trade Center, they didn't give a warning. President Bush knew, you can tell that he knew. The insiders knew. The rest of us, big surprise. THOUSANDS of Muslims applauded that one, I'm sure there will be many Dem losers & haters applauding when I get punished. And maybe when you're not a subscriber, the administrators move much more strongly against you. When I wasn't a subscriber, they left Spam mods on my tweets. Which they do to so many people, to aristarchus and I'm sure there are others, it was nothing special. But they warned me, there's a VERY SPECIAL punishment coming for me. And I'm sure it's because I spoke very frankly about certain things.
(Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Wednesday February 21 2018, @03:20PM (1 child)
This post has stars-only comments :D
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(Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Wednesday February 21 2018, @05:26PM
Well only subscribers are interested, other than the one guy who has technical input. Sounds like the system works to me.
(Score: 1) by bolek_b on Thursday February 22 2018, @10:30AM
I sent a mail to admin, but without any response so far. Seeing how fast are resolved issues posted here, I may ask for help here as well...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 18 2018, @12:21PM
I think this is something a bot could easily do. Just fetch both and if the HTTPS link exists confirm they're the same, which I think is 99.99% of cases. We could do that in subs and even comments, perhaps only when somebody previews and is informed of the situation. If somebody disagrees with deployment, then maybe a user pref could be added to never do this for their inputs.
Would be a little nudge towards a more private internet in general and SN in particular.