Bugs and Suggestions

Re: Lounge is just *TOO* peaceful

11-Jul-20 7:50

Our redis server again had problems so Matthew finally lost his patience, blew the database away and is letting it rebuild. During the downtime there may have been missing data but that should be all good now.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Brisingr Aerowing11-Jul-20 10:15

Brisingr Aerowing

11-Jul-20 10:15

It sounds like Redis is making Matthew want to pull his hair out.

What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?

The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.

Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???

Re: Lounge is just *TOO* peaceful

Chris Maunder13-Jul-20 5:11

Please make the file replacement transactional

13-Jul-20 5:11

Yeah, this is his now because I no longer have hair to pull out

cheers
Chris Maunder

honey the codewitch10-Jul-20 4:18

10-Jul-20 4:18

So while I'm editing a page online, I go to zip up a file and replace my current deliverable with an updated version. It takes a little longer than expected - about 5 minutes because life intervened.

Anyway, *while* I'm still editing someone tried to download the file and the system couldn't find it.

So what it looks like at least, is at the time I had edited, between when I deleted the file and when I replaced it with a new one, the user could not get to the old file.

To bottom line it, from my observations (and correct me if i'm wrong)

Behavior: Deleting a file removes it from the available downloads immediately.
Expected behavior: Deleting an attached file does nothing to the public article until "Publish" is clicked.

I understand if there are some technical limitations to this, but maybe a little notice above the files section at the very least would be helpful.

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Chris Maunder10-Jul-20 5:56

10-Jul-20 5:56

We should clarify the UI.

When you upload a new version of a file while editing, the old version is still there and available. It needs to be for exactly the reason you described. You then submit your update and it goes to moderation. The old files are still there, but the new version will use the new versions of the files you uploaded. once your article is approved your new files then overwrite the old files and your new content overwrites the old content and the users see the new content and new files.

cheers
Chris Maunder

honey the codewitch10-Jul-20 5:57

10-Jul-20 5:57

Then I don't know what happened here: CPPkg: Create Zips of Your Source Code From Visual Studio[^] (see Roger500's comments) he was trying to download while I edited and the system couldn't find the file. When I was done editing we both downloaded again no problem (i did it as a test)

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Chris Maunder10-Jul-20 6:27

10-Jul-20 6:27

Because you deleted the existing file Roger couldn't download it.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Nelek10-Jul-20 7:25

Nelek

10-Jul-20 7:25

(Delete() + Upload (new)) != Update(file)

I suppose the behaviour might be different too

M.D.V.

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honey the codewitch10-Jul-20 7:30

10-Jul-20 7:30

If there's an option to update the file in place, i must be missing it (i don't look that hard, tbf)

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Maybe related to cache issues?

Nelek10-Jul-20 11:08

Nelek

10-Jul-20 11:08

I wouldn't know. I didn't need the functionality. My only download is almost 13,5 years old and fast obsolete Wink | ;)

M.D.V.

honey the codewitch10-Jul-20 4:13

Draft appearing in Just Published section

10-Jul-20 4:13

My views and download count sometimes goes down when I refresh the page on one of my projects.

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More cache issues

Peter_in_27809-Jul-20 14:27

Peter_in_2780

9-Jul-20 14:27

...at least it smells like cache. In S&A:

but when I go to reply (after apparently administering the 10th hit):

Note the change in subject.

fwiw I've also had a rash of spurious QA filters for the last week or so, and various other "out of date cached stuff" annoyances.

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Re: More cache issues

jeron19-Jul-20 14:37

jeron1

9-Jul-20 14:37

Peter_in_2780 wrote:
I've also had a rash of spurious QA filters for the last week or so

I've noticed similar operation.

"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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honey the codewitch8-Jul-20 8:16

Re: Draft appearing in Just Published section

8-Jul-20 8:16

An untitled draft is showing up in the Just Published section of the site.

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Matthew Dennis8-Jul-20 10:36

Matthew Dennis

8-Jul-20 10:36

It may have been due to an issue we seem to be having with Redis, or more likely our Redis client.
It appears to have corrected itself, but if it happens again, please provide a link to the offending article.

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

Looks like the system goes crazy...

User 110609798-Jul-20 7:58

8-Jul-20 7:58

1. Lounge
Shows then and when an empty list of items

2. B&S
- Shows then and when an empty list of items
- Threads appears/disappears

3. Q&A filter changes very frequently to some selections (even I don't have defined a filter for it)

It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question

modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.

Matthew Dennis8-Jul-20 10:15

Matthew Dennis

8-Jul-20 10:15

It looks like the Redis issue is back, combined with excessive load on the database server. I think we were being crawled by several search engines at the same time.

Things seem to have settled down, but I'll keep an eye on it.

Let me know if it happens again.

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

Richard Andrew x649-Jul-20 7:12

Richard Andrew x64

9-Jul-20 7:12

It has just happened again.

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

User 110609799-Jul-20 7:58

9-Jul-20 7:58

Same here

It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question

modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.

User 110609799-Jul-20 7:56

9-Jul-20 7:56

Posted this in the lounge: The Lounge[^]

After posting the lounge list shown empty again. After refresh after about 5 Min. lounge list will be displayed, but not the message I posted.
Ok now...

It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question

modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.

User 110609799-Jul-20 10:20