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Joke of the day

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
March 16, 2011
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Reloading one of the forum pages, I suddenly had the following message on the screen. A moment later I could get to the forum. I like the note.

Temporarily Unavailable

We're sorry. This site is not available at this time.

(Mar 16)

Note:

Please wait a few moments, and try doing whatever it was that you were doing again.

If that doesn't work, please contact this site's administrator.

This topic has been closed for replies.

Jacob Bugge

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Two things have showed today:

1) It is sometimes impossible to send a PM because the recipient cannot be found. I have tried that a while ago, trying to forward a PM rather than repying to one, and it came up in this thread today, which was certainly no joke:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/917486?tstart=0

2) Your stuff (and whoever's stuff) no longer shows the threads you have started, but merely some threads your have posted in; and the options do not include your own threads. This means that you will have to use different means to find threads from long ago; I had to go some pages back to revive this one.

Jacob Bugge

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The joke of this day seems to be that posts are hidden for a long time, only to appear out of nowhere when a new post is submitted, as you can see from posts #13 &14 (so far) here:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3666724#3666724

John Hawkinson

Inspiring

This is database skew between 1 of the 4 servers.

See http://forums.adobe.com/thread/850374?tstart=0.

Basically you can delete your cookies and reload the page up to ~10 times.

Unfortunately it seems for some threads, you have to not be on the bad server to see the full thread.

For other threads, you must be on the bad server to see the full thread.

I hope there are not threads that have different contents on different servers that are not subsets of each other...

anyhow, it's being worked on by adobe-admin (he has escalated it with Jive).

J

Jochem van Dieten

Inspiring

John Hawkinson wrote on 11/05/12 19:31:

This is database skew between 1 of the 4 servers.

Cache skew, the database is consistent.

I hope there are not threads that have different contents on different servers that are not subsets of each other...

There are if you use the website or reply by email. Outgoing email

notifications are sent after a commit and commits are consistent so they

have no problems. The webservices bypass the cache as well and are

always consistent.

J

Joner01

Participant

That's not a Joke!!!

Jacob Bugge

Author

Community Expert

And today this haunted thread is haunted by two strangenesses:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/841585?tstart=0

If you click Last Post, nothing happens.

The last post is by someone reposting, but according to the forum list it is by someone else, who has not posted in that thread at all; the number of posts is correct (currently 37):

http://forums.adobe.com/community/illustrator/illustrator_general

the_wine_snob

Inspiring

Yes,

There IS weirdness today. On the main forum page, see the announcement.

I am seeing the "(Updated)" lable, with some odd Reply counts, and also missing Replies from the listed Last Poster.

I assume that these are all related, but that is just a guess.

Hunt

Jacob Bugge

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Community Expert

Today some of us have the message An unexpected error has occurred when submitting posts. Going to the thread shows that things get posted, but some end up with double posts because of retrying, I believe.

It has happened in this thread (at least from post #27 on): http://forums.adobe.com/thread/841585?tstart=0

the_wine_snob

Inspiring

Yes, I have gotten a few of those too - one, just today. They more often show up, when the fourms are on the fritz, and phantom log-outs are everywhere, but they do not seem to be log-in dependent. In today's case, I just did a Ctrl+C for the reply, and hit Cancel, only to see that the Reply HAD posted????? Glad that I did not hit Post Reply a second, or third time.

Hunt

Jacob Bugge

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Community Expert

The joke of this day seems to be that when I edit a post and press the Update button, the original post reappears without the change; I have just tried it a few times, trying in vain to change is to would be. It worked earlier today.

Edit: And it works here (again), at the second attempt. It seems to be intermittent.

Noel Carboni

Legend

Sounds like the problem I reported here:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/838494?tstart=0

I think you just have to be a slowpoke to get an edit through.

Edit: Now THAT's interesting... I saw that this thread had popped to the top, and was indicated as "unread" by the Read Tracking feature. I didn't notice that your post was old, Jacob.

-Noel

Jacob Bugge

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Noel,

As you can see, I linked to this thread in the first post there.

I believe some removed post has dragged it up. I have seen a thread here and there topping the list, with a last post some months or even a year or two back.

Jacob Bugge

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Community Expert

The joke of this day seems to be that new threads/threads with new contents are no longer shown in bold, and the latter without the addition (Updated).