On Friday, I started to vote for the Test Round but a server crash (?)
stopped me from completing. Today I logged in again to complete my vote
and was surprised to see a comment entered for the first image displayed
that was not the comment that I had entered previously. The following
images did not display that glitch.
Was it a product of the server crash or is it a more general bug visible
to others?

John
-- 
"Eppur si muove" - Galileo Galilei

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Doctor John <joh### [at] homecom> wrote:

> Was it a product of the server crash or is it a more general bug visible
> to others?
>

voted at all??? Did the crash vipe out the votes?

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Hildur K. wrote:
> Doctor John <joh### [at] homecom> wrote:
> 
>> Was it a product of the server crash or is it a more general bug visible
>> to others?
>>

> voted at all??? Did the crash vipe out the votes?

I've looked into this issue.  It turns out there's a race condition that 
occurs in the voting when many people start voting at once.  This caused 
a corruption in the data that prevented it from being saved properly and 
likely led to the crash the other day.

I've fixed the corruption.  I'm working at fixing the race condition 
itself.  It will take a few hours and I'll have to bring the site down 
to install the fix.

I apologize for the problems.  This is the kind of problem that can only 
be detected when many people are working on the system at the same time 
and, as such, didn't get caught during testing.

David Buck

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Doctor John wrote:
> On Friday, I started to vote for the Test Round but a server crash (?)
> stopped me from completing. Today I logged in again to complete my vote
> and was surprised to see a comment entered for the first image displayed
> that was not the comment that I had entered previously. The following
> images did not display that glitch.
> Was it a product of the server crash or is it a more general bug visible
> to others?
> 
> John

Just out of curiousity, when voting, when does the update to the 
datatbase happen? Is it for each entry on the 'next' or 'previous' 
click?  On any other events? Close?  Also it seems order of events can 
matter.  If I add a comment, then readjust my scoring, I get a new page 
with the new scoring, but the comments are lost.  Or is that on my side? 
  A browser setting or something?

-Jim

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Jim Charter wrote:

Also, I am not sure if my score for the first entry is being saved, but 
it is never displayed no matter how many times I add it, when I leave 
then reenter the app.

Also I am finding the logon timeout a bit restrictive when I am adding 
comments.  Sometimes I have to think a bit when I am writing them.  I 
have learned to copy to clipboard as I go but still...

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Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote:
> Jim Charter wrote:
>
> Also, I am not sure if my score for the first entry is being saved, but
> it is never displayed no matter how many times I add it, when I leave
> then reenter the app.
>

than half of my votes got viped out, but for some reason not all.

Anyway, I have voted for all now, but the first one gets viped out every time if
I leave the server. But only the stars go, if I tick in one of the three boxes
it stays.

Hope this helps,

Hildur

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