D+D not showing up post Holiday Forum

RedTide · December 2016

Title kind of says it all and browsing relevant forums it seems like either no one else has this issue or the forum was killed without fanfare. Either way.

Sterica · December 2016

We are aware that certain forums are missing (I think Critical Failures is another).

Nothing we can do until an admin gets here, so just be patient.

Neco · December 2016

Thank you I almost legit had a panic attack.

Tube · December 2016

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/categories/debate-andor-discourse

does this link work?

RedTide wrote: »

Title kind of says it all and browsing relevant forums it seems like either no one else has this issue or the forum was killed without fanfare. Either way.

yeah obviously we deleted the second largest category without telling anyone we were doing it. drink your milk.

RedTide · December 2016

Tube wrote: »

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/categories/debate-andor-discourse

does this link work?

RedTide wrote: »

Title kind of says it all and browsing relevant forums it seems like either no one else has this issue or the forum was killed without fanfare. Either way.

yeah obviously we deleted the second largest category without telling anyone we were doing it. drink your milk.

Getting the insufficient holiday cheer error message when clicked. Also apologies if thread is redundant.

Tube · December 2016

Well the forums are still there, nothing has been deleted. This is going to have to wait on a fix from Icy because it's all looking good from my end. Unfortunately he's on vacation so we'll see how the day goes.

Grunt's Ghosts · December 2016

You gave Icy a vacation? I thought you guys had him chained in a closet, forcing him to pump out code or he get the hose again!

Trace · December 2016

I see.

D+D is going to need to invest in some Christmas lights.

Elldren · December 2016

Well for reproduction and Icy's sake I'm accessing through iOS safari and having this issue on both mobile and full sites. The only forum showing up under on-topic is G&T and it's subfora; both CF and D+D are not showing up and giving me insufficient cheer warnings when trying to access them through direct links.

Edit: further testing and the same issue applies to chrome for windows and OSX, OSX safari, Firefox for OSX, and IE 11, both signed in and not, so it's probably not a browser issue

Tube · December 2016

It's not a browser issue.

Tube · December 2016

I made a temporary chat thread here: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/208860/the-d-d-chat-thread/p1?new=1

Lovely · December 2016

Tube wrote: »

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/categories/debate-andor-discourse

does this link work?

RedTide wrote: »

Title kind of says it all and browsing relevant forums it seems like either no one else has this issue or the forum was killed without fanfare. Either way.

yeah obviously we deleted the second largest category without telling anyone we were doing it. drink your milk.

...I mean. It would be a little funny.

RedTide wrote: »

Tube wrote: »

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/categories/debate-andor-discourse

does this link work?

RedTide wrote: »

Title kind of says it all and browsing relevant forums it seems like either no one else has this issue or the forum was killed without fanfare. Either way.

yeah obviously we deleted the second largest category without telling anyone we were doing it. drink your milk.

Getting the insufficient holiday cheer error message when clicked. Also apologies if thread is redundant.

WE MUST ALL GATHER TOGETHER AND SING CHRISTMAS CAROLS! IT'S THE ONLY WAY!

TL DR · December 2016

Tube wrote: »

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/categories/debate-andor-discourse

does this link work?

RedTide wrote: »

Title kind of says it all and browsing relevant forums it seems like either no one else has this issue or the forum was killed without fanfare. Either way.

yeah obviously we deleted the second largest category without telling anyone we were doing it. drink your milk.

To be fair, that doesn't not sound like something you'd do for funsies.

Al_wat · December 2016

Yeah i thought this was a "as you are the sub forum that takes the most effort to moderate; we need extra time off this holiday to recuperate"

Trace · December 2016

2016 killed D+D too.

bwanie · December 2016

and so the universe was balanced again

Nightslyr · December 2016

It's not just D&D, but all of the On Topic subforums aside from G&T and it's subforums (Moe's, MMO) for me.

amateurhour · December 2016

Thanks for looking into it and letting us know what's up.

Darkewolfe · December 2016

Tube wrote: »

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/categories/debate-andor-discourse

does this link work?

RedTide wrote: »

Title kind of says it all and browsing relevant forums it seems like either no one else has this issue or the forum was killed without fanfare. Either way.

yeah obviously we deleted the second largest category without telling anyone we were doing it. drink your milk.

TBH I gave it a 20% chance that you said, "After a wonderful Christmas not policing the awful D&D forums, I decided to kill it." :P

The Ender · December 2016

Thanks for looking into this @Tube .

It's the holidays. Stuff happens & nobody should stress over it.

Paladin · December 2016

Might be related:

Sometimes when I click on a thread, I have to manually refresh for the page to change. This only happened after the restore.

Samsung Galaxy S7, Android 6.0.1
Chrome 55.0.2883.91

Aegeri · December 2016

I honestly thought this was just a deliberate troll/joke :P

Opty · December 2016

I wonder if it'll fix itself when the holiday forum is hidden from view

Mill · December 2016

Was so going to make a joke that Putin had D&D assassinated for mocking him in so many of its political threads. Alternative joke would have been that 2016 was such a shit year, that it claimed another victim. :P

McFodder · December 2016

I'm now getting a 'You don't have permission to do that' rather than a link to the holiday forum.

Tube · December 2016

Icy is aware of the problem and will fix it when he gets a chance, but it's a fairly thorny problem outside of usual Vanilla fixes and he's on vacation so manage your expectations.

WiseManTobes · December 2016

I say we just go back to holiday hangout til new years! heh

Nullzone · December 2016

The Upside Down is gone now - D&D and CF got Barb'd.

Sterica · December 2016

The holiday forum is automated, so it probably just went invisible at a set time.

Aldo · December 2016

Icy, I wish you a super awesome holiday and I can totally live without a bunch of subforums for however long you will be on vacation and then to get this sorted out after you are back.

It may be redundant to spell it out, but I thought back to a previous job where every day off was such a drama that I didn't dare taking time off at all. I wish more people had told me that I shouldn't worry, so thats why I'm telling you.

Athenor · December 2016

Echo & Tube just closed down the D&D / H&A threads in SE++ with the note that the forums are back. However, they are still not on the forum list, even after a logout / logon and ctrl+f5 reload.

Edit (after P10's post):