No email notifications again - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: ataradov
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 10, 2021, 06:18:43 pm
content: Ever since the server water/fire incident I have not received a single email notification.Is something broken again? Or is it expected to work itself out over time as things get back to normal?

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 11, 2021, 03:49:51 am
content: Quote from: Brumby on April 11, 2021, 03:46:37 am

author: PlainName
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 11, 2021, 08:14:37 pm
content: Same here.QuoteYes, sure. But it's important to know if that's your opinion or an official statement of fact. We could be failing to report stuff they need to know because someone thinks that's what happens on a jury-rigged setup.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 12, 2021, 09:25:54 am
content: I read information provided on the EEVblog and drew my conclusions from these posts:Quote from: EEVblog on April 08, 2021, 03:41:53 amQuote from: EEVblog on April 08, 2021, 03:50:05 amDraw your own conclusions.

author: PlainName
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 12, 2021, 01:14:49 pm
content: I read those and my conclusion was that there is no indication that email from the server is affected (other than in performance terms). Dave's issues with email are a) a separate thing and b) presumably resolved with a restarted server, so why would forum email still be affected?If TPTB don't want to know about notification issues that's fine, and they have only to say they are aware, or don't care, and it's done. If you're not speaking officially on behalf of them then you are potentially causing more problems than you think your well-meaning, hand-waving dismissal is solving.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 15, 2021, 03:00:43 pm
content: Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 12, 2021, 01:14:49 pmTunnel vision is rarely useful.QuoteIt's true - I'm only speculating. But if you care to read what I said, you will see that. It might seem peculiar to you, but most people who read a sentence that begins with "I think..." will understand that itisonly my opinion..... and if you can't figure out why I offered it, then I know I won't be able to explain it to you - not because I cannot express my reasons, but because you will not want to hear them.

author: DrG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 15, 2021, 03:10:30 pm
content: Added recently (dunno - a day or two ago?) to the first page after log in:Nothing else to add.

author: ataradov
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 19, 2021, 12:32:43 am
content: Hey, I've got a couple notifications just now. They were for the threads that I already read, but this is something. It looks like things are getting back online.

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 19, 2021, 12:33:48 am
content: Yes, they seem to be arriving and my phone is now being put on silent for the foreseeable future..

author: xrunner
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 19, 2021, 12:34:17 am
content: Just got one for a PM ...

author: ataradov
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2021, 05:03:11 pm
content: The missing post counts and threads are back, but the conversations about them were lost it seems. I looks like it is related to cutting out one particularly delusional and toxic member.It is not clear how much progress was lost in all this. I see at least an hour or so of messages were lost from some of the threads I could remember.

author: drussell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2021, 05:41:56 pm
content: Something is definitely wrong with post counts or else a bunch of my past posts have gone missing.I'm apparently missing at least about 100 posts, I was at 18xx, now I seem to only have 1766.

author: ataradov
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2021, 06:15:37 pm
content: They went back some. Yesterday I had 7370 or so. Now it is back to what it was or close. It looks like cleanup went wrong and then it had to be restored from the backup. But it does not look like a lot of stuff missing. I may be missing the last hour or so.So if your post count is still down, it may be because some long thread was intentionally deleted. The out of stock thread is back now.

author: tunk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2021, 06:24:41 pm
content: In the list of "recent posts", there's nothing between 5:30 and 18:48 (local time).A guess is that the forum has been restored from the newest backup, rather than restoring all the deleted threads.

author: drussell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2021, 06:28:29 pm
content: Quote from: ataradov on May 02, 2021, 06:15:37 pmSomething must still be amiss somewhere...My post count says 1767 but if I view "Show Posts" in my profile, I can go back to page 73 and it shows post #1824...

author: ataradov
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 02, 2021, 06:35:01 pm
content: It is 7455 vs 7406 for me. But this may be normal. I'm not sure if your posts from deleted threads still show up in the list, but not counted for the profile picture. Because there is no way I posted 50 times in that one day. Plus I see that most of my posts from yesterday are here.Although no, I just found email notification for the removed topic, and my reply in that topic is not in the list.

author: drussell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 04, 2021, 11:15:17 am
content: Quote from: drussell on May 02, 2021, 06:28:29 pmQuote from: ataradov on May 02, 2021, 06:35:01 pmWell, they're obviously still doingsomethingbehind the scenes on this...My post count jumped from 1768 yesterday to 1783 today all by itself, and there are now 1841 in my "Show Posts" section in the profile.They must still be un-munging the database and presumably will have to do some magic SQL incantation to re-populate people's post count field with the actual true value once the repairs are complete...I'm pretty sure I was right around 1900 posts, as I was closing in on a 1 post-per-day average on the profile page, but I'm currently shown to be back at 0.864 per day.