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Thu May 15, 2014 5:59 am
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Nate says...



This was a stupid mistake on my part. Late on May 12 EDT, I was trying to figure what was causing the delay in notifications for clubs. When someone makes a comment on the wall of a club you belong to (or responds to a comment you made), you should receive a notification for that within two minutes at most. Instead, the notification was not showing up for up to 20 minutes.

Since the notification database doesn't get purged until I purge it and since I hadn't done this in a while, I figured that might be the cause. There were well over 2,000,000 entries at that point, so it seemed reasonable that the size of that database was the issue. So, I ran a code to delete all notifications that were older than a week.

On May 13, some users began noticing that notifications older than 24 hours were no longer available. I looked into this on May 14, and found that when running the aforementioned code, I used the wrong timestamp. Instead of using the timestamp for a week ago, I used the one for what was then the current time.

My deepest apologies for this error. It was a stupid mistake, and something that should not have happened. I can also promise that it will not happen again as I've now set up a script that will automatically delete old notifications; keeping that database lean and removing the possibility of me using the wrong timestamp again.
  





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Thu May 15, 2014 6:07 am
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Prokaryote says...



I forgive you but demand reparations.

One hundred new notifications will suffice -- until the anniversary.
  





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Thu May 15, 2014 6:21 am
Holysocks says...



No worries!
100% autistic
  





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Thu May 15, 2014 6:46 am
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Prokaryote says...



As usual, Natertots delivers. Thank you. Count on my vote in the next election.
  





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Thu May 15, 2014 8:09 am
Hannah says...



WHY CAN'T I CLICK ON THE 100 NEW NOTIFICATIONS?!

my sense of agency is missing. ;_;
you can message me with anything: questions, review requests, rants
are you a green room knight yet?
have you read this week's Squills?
  





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Thu May 15, 2014 11:18 am
Laure says...



I was wondering why....o.o
  





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Thu May 15, 2014 2:12 pm
Iggy says...



There's no reason for anyone to get mad at you, Nate. You're going the extra mile to make YWS awesome, so how could we say anything but thank you? =)

Also, 100 notifications?! What did I miss? D:
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Iggy says...



... Now I see. And here I thought I was popular for a moment. >_<
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Thu May 15, 2014 4:07 pm
Messenger says...



I never lost notifications >_>
  





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Thu May 15, 2014 5:28 pm
Zontafer says...



I believe someone also got 5 notifications for one thing?
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