h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi, Feisor!

You're the Ace who greeted me when I first subscribed, so you're the best person to run to with questions, right? I've got a fiddly, detailed, obnoxious doozy of one for you.

Like Powminator, who wrote you in March, I'm having trouble with a disappearing Journal entry. You might want to get a pencil and start making a flowchart, this one's complicated.

1 - I wrote Journal entry last night (5/18/07 or possibly just after midnight on the 19th)
2 - published it prematurely, forgetting that you can't edit Journal entries
3 - used the back button to go back to the 'new journal entry' page, where the incomplete entry still showed up
4 - finished the entry and published it
5 - the entry didn't show up
6 - used the back button again, copied the entry-in-progress to an e-mail for my father
7 - tried to find the published entry both signed in and signed out; no luck; went to bed
8 - 5/19/07 looked for entry again, both signed in and signed out - not there
9 - noticed that when I got to my page without signing in the page greeted me as me (?)
10 - clicked on the 'add journal entry button' and was told to sign in (fair enough, as I hadn't yet - my personal space only thought I had as long as I didn't try any funny stuff)
11 - signed in, clicked 'add journal,' pasted entry into journal (from e-mail I'd copied it to in last night)
12 - tweaked spacing, clicked 'publish'
13 - entry showed up twice: once 'just now' and once '16 hours ago'
14 - deleted '16 hours ago' entry, went to admire entry
15 - no entry
16 - repasted, tweaked, and published
17 - entry showed up twice: once 'just now' and once 'four minutes ago'
18 - went to fiance's computer - entry showed up twice, both signed in and not
19 - restarted my computer, went to my page, no entry, no matter what, and the page immediately recognizes me whether I sign in or not.
20 - came running to you!

Sprinkle liberally with teeth-gnashing and hair-tearing, then copy to a guru. Help?

BlueCrab
(If this question disappears, I'm going to cry.)

You're right!! I'll get a Guru

Right I'm not up-to-date on the technical side of this, but I am aware that the servers refresh themselves around midnight, result in *my* being logged out, "unrecognised researcher" signing in not working etc.

Which might, in part, explain the problems publishing the journal originally.

As to it being available or one computer but not another, and the funny time stamp issues - a caching problem perhaps?



but best wait until someone who really knows the ins-and-outs of this arrives.

F94020?thread=3742453&latest=1

post 97 puts things into some context I think. Whether Bluecrab's journals are related to this, I don't know.

Traveller in Time reconstructing events
"The only thing is the Journals and signing in and out happened more early then the SSO reset.

The current secondary state of the filther seems to refer not only word combinations but also potential spam. Returning to the PostJournal page would enable to create slightly different Journals but the filther also triggers recognising a spam.
This secondary state only kicks in after some time, sometimes the Journal can be read before it is refered (and as a thread starter, hiding the entire thread). "

Thank you all for trying to figure out my schizoid journal!

The entry is appearing twice now (as well as the one grousing about the problem - do we have a smiley?; do I dare delete one?

It occurs to me that part of the problem may be cookies or something like them. I preview several times before publishing or posting; could I be clogging something up?

On the other hand, 4 or 5 times in the past 6 months or so when I've come to the site the Front Page hasn't moved from the previous day. And once, a great treat, the datelines over a 3-day period made it look like I'd gotten a 4-hour preview of a Front Page 2 days early

Traveller in Time seeing a fresh new < <./>frontpage</.> > every working day
"This sounds as if you are also behind one of the caching routers .

If the date of any page is wrong, then be sure to refresh the page, chances are you are looking at your own cache.

Normal previewing (without use of the backpage button) will not give multiple postings. Use of the backpage button is discouraged on interactive sites. "

Thanks for your help (again)

Traveller in Time on top
" as long as there is someone else around to deconfuse my ramblings ."