Deals.Woot

@hobbit: Well, as you'd noticed, I told them things were wonky. Guess now they're even wonkier. /me waves at @josefresno and @shawnmiller, and smiles ever so sweetly.

[Edit] Wow, I just looked. Now that's really messed up!

@josefresno can fill in the details, but our weekly process that cleans up orphaned data on the user tabs failed this weekend. We came up with a smarter way to implement this process today and @josefresno is going to code it up tomorrow.

@shawnmiller: So this isn't a side effect of the new reputation system that's planned? Good, I'm sooo close to the leaderboard I'm not sure I want you to mix things up just yet :-p

@josefresno: You used effect correctly (I'm amused that you asked), but it will be nice when Deals gets out of the interminable beta test we seem to be trapped in. Are you saying that Ms Hobbit not being able to see anything she's voted on is a side effect? I think of this as more like a bug. Side effects are when the constant (but fractional) number that is the difference in my reputation after one vote up, or after one new comment, changes slightly. Merely amusing, and causes me to revamp my calculations.

I don't mean to sound unpleasant (text does not convey meaning in quite the same way as the timbre of a voice, or facial expressions), but it seems to me to be more than a side effect. Just saying.

[Edit] Lucky me. I just realized that you are now in the same time zone, so for you, it's still early.

@hobbit: FWIW, my history looks fine (best as I can tell).

@hobbit: Interesting to note that the deals I voted on actually display where it says "commented".

Okay, in addition to the other problems reported, I'm seeing the constant server error anytime I attempt to look at ANYONE'S member status stuff (you know, from that link that says "All Woot Activity").

Here's an example:

http://members.woot.com/errors/500.html?aspxerrorpath=/tygerdave

Ow, make it stop.

Please (@shawnmiller @josefresno).

@tygerdave: You know, and I mean this in the very kindest of ways, you are beginning to look just a bit like a karma whore[tm].

As an aside, I have no idea what errors you are speaking of with our occasional friend, and boon companion, @dealzombie. In addition, it just might be that you don't want to unmask a zombie. I would certainly recommend against it. Besides, sometimes one prefers not to look behind the curtain. I also don't pursue the explanation behind magic tricks. I like them the way they are.

@josefresno: awwwwww poor Julio. were you going down a hillio?

I should point out I guess, because I am in the mood. I learned to drive a stick on the hills of Seattle - litterally.

@hobbit: Ya, quite steep hills round here it seems. I could blame it on my wife's driving skilz, but that wouldn't be very nice :)

@josefresno: Oh, a limerick! Elegant, proper to the form, even clean (as opposed to 94.79% of them). Why yes, that is my favorite number right now, thanks for asking.

[Edit] Just saw the picture. I'm glad you are uninjured. Pity it's not SF, since you don't really need to have a car there. Public transportation in Seattle is merely okay.

[Edit again} My, what would I do without that five minute window? I see that the error on the member database was fixed a while ago, and thank you. The limerick made me forget my manners for a moment.

@josefresno and @shawnmiller: Well, I can see that the crawling crud has finally gotten to my account. You must have been working your way backwards. Is there any ETA on when you are going to have this fixed?

I normally browse the questions from the usertab, via questions I've commented on (and then deals I've commented on). Nothing like seeing ZERO on both sides to really start off the day. Perhaps @jumbowoot could provide insight as to a time when this will all just be a bad memory?

@shrdlu within the next day. The fix is currently on our testing/staging server.

@josefresno: They are showing up in precisely the reverse order. I feel like I've been time traveling, and it's not actually a feeling that I was hoping for. In addition, there's some things that don't seem to make any sense at all. Can't you just roll back the code for the last while until all this is fixed? Please. :-(

When do you think the "Voted" stuff will be fixed? If you saw my face right now, it would make you sad.

[Edit] In addition, on the question side it's in Reverse order. I can't even figure out what going on now with the Deals side.

@josefresno: I'm afraid to say this, but the comments appear to be back to normal. Gott in Himmel, but I've made a lot of comments. Will the votes follow? They're not nearly as important, but it'd still be nice.

Thank you (and thank your unnamed subordinate).

[Edit] I spoke too soon, didn't I. It's still pretty jumbled up, but at least it's getting slowly better.

@shrdlu: you have asked exactly 90 Questions, all of which I do believe are shown in the proper order.

The worker is still on the Deal-Commented user tab... It is currently ignoring users with an exclamation point "!" or single quote "'" in their name, but seems to be moving along... (we will deal with those crazy usernames after the majority of the users get their tabs back)

It should get to Votes some time tonight.... it is working in the order of Deal-Comments, Deal-Votes, Question-Comments and lastly Question-Votes lots of data to clean up. I believe we identified the gremlin that caused this issue to happen in the first place, so hopefully user tabs will be back to normal tomorrow and for a long time after that!