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Is anyone noticing their Woot square changing color tonight, or is it just me?

Jan 27, 2012 8:01 AM

Tonight my Woot square keeps changing from black to yellow. The number of woots is also changing, from 115 to 1. Logging out and back in makes it go back to normal, but then a few minutes later it's yellow again. The deals.woot black triangle is not affected. This is happening on both woot.com and deals.woot.com. Even when the square is yellow, all of my previous purchases are displayed in my account.

This just struck me as strange, I've never seen anything like this happen before.

cleverett cleverett

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Yes, it's happening to me to. My box is particularly annoying shade of yellow. It's not particularly unusual for the colors or values to go all crazy like this, though. It doesn't happen everyday, but it's far from the first time. Just ride it out.

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It's a glitch is happens all the time. It will be corrected, just give it a little time.

Most common glitches are:

- loss of triangle color
- join date is displayed as today's date
- woot count (square) inaccurate
- staff lose their badges
- comments not appearing

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