The case of the missing notifications
Apr. 11th, 2026 11:58 pm![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png){kind=small}
denise posting in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_maintenanceI keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.
Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)
We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.
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Apr. 11th, 2026 03:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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i_read_whatThis weekend is a little busier than expected, so the next review probably won't be up until Monday or Tuesday.
Edit: Definitely Tuesday
Edit: Definitely Tuesday
Castle of Deception - Interlude the First
Apr. 8th, 2026 06:52 pmkalinara posting in i_read_whatSo last time, poor Kevin was a whiny teenager who isn't really having fun. And I don't really blame him. I've mentioned a few times that as a kid, I disliked Kevin (at least early on), but I actually feel pretty fond of the little idiot now.
( A big sign of getting old is that it's hard to blame stupid kids for being stupid kids... )
( A big sign of getting old is that it's hard to blame stupid kids for being stupid kids... )
Flight of the Raven - Part One, Chapter Five
Apr. 5th, 2026 11:09 pmkalinara posting in i_read_whatSo last time, Aidan met an ancestor and maybe a god? Hard to say exactly, but getting a look at the Cheysuli religion more in depth is always welcome.
( Also it's interesting to see a more human, though still pretty evil, version of our very first villain... )
( Also it's interesting to see a more human, though still pretty evil, version of our very first villain... )
Chronicles of Pern: First Fall - Introduction and Survey: PERN(c)
Apr. 1st, 2026 06:14 pmkalinara posting in i_read_whatSo I figured I've taken a long enough break from Pern that it might be fun to get back to it. Also I realized that Masterharper of Pern is happily not the next one on the list. A reprieve!
Chronicles of Pern is actually a collection of short stories though and I've never actually tried to review one of those on this blog. Not really sure how it's going to work. But we can give it a shot.
I haven't actually read any of these stories before. Some of them may have been published earlier but I feel like if I tried to weave in all of the short stories by publication date I'd lose my mind. So we're going by the book publication date instead. Woo.
On the plus side, no standard intro for this book!
( Let's get started! )
Chronicles of Pern is actually a collection of short stories though and I've never actually tried to review one of those on this blog. Not really sure how it's going to work. But we can give it a shot.
I haven't actually read any of these stories before. Some of them may have been published earlier but I feel like if I tried to weave in all of the short stories by publication date I'd lose my mind. So we're going by the book publication date instead. Woo.
On the plus side, no standard intro for this book!
( Let's get started! )