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posted by janrinok on Saturday April 05 2025, @09:27AM   Printer-friendly

There appears to have been a problem with the update of the Poll. Some made comments before the Poll appeared on the front pages - or so it seems. How they accessed it I do not know. The Poll released at the programmed time but comments that had already been made seem to have been lost. I am investigating the cause.

My apologies to anyone who had already made a comment. All I can do is ask that you make your comments again. We have not seen the problem before so if anyone can provide additional information that might help in identifying the cause it would be most useful. Did you access the Poll via the front page? If not, can you explain how you did access it please? Which browser are you using? Did anything appear 'different' to when you usually access the site?

[Addendum: The poll displayed on my front page has reverted to the previous poll again. If anyone else has seen the same please confirm in a reply to this Meta.] After a minute or so it returned to displaying the correct Poll.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by pTamok on Sunday April 06 2025, @10:19AM

    by pTamok (3042) on Sunday April 06 2025, @10:19AM (#1399285)

    In addition the display changed several times over a minute or two from the older poll to the newer poll and back, before settling down. It happened on 2 different computers and with different browsers. However, if nobody else saw it then it suggests that it is something more local rather than on our site.

    To me, that looks like a caching problem, and/or a load-balancing problem.