Timestamps are broken

discrider

Timestamps from a previous day are now only showing two parts of the timestamp.
Below it's year - month (and no longer a day/time)
In my profile, I'm only seeing year - day for my join time

This only started happening within the past 24 hours.

Nova_C

At the same time of this, I also noticed some threads are inaccessible. FAQ thread in this forum says "Not found" when I click on it. When I click on the Alternate OS thread in Moe's tech subforum, it takes me to a user profile.

Brolo

this page seems to be coming up for me when I try to view search results

is this another Vanilla forums update gone rogue?

Hahnsoo1

Man, a lot of threads are straight-up broken. This ain't good.

Kamar

Yeah, Game Dev thread is currently sending me to an XNA Indie Games thread from 15 years ago. edit: Working now

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/206950/game-dev-i-dont-have-a-publisher-what-i-do-have-are-a-very-particular-set-of-skills

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/vanilla/discussion/73938

double edit: broken again

Grey Ghost

I got the "page not found" that Brolo posted just from trying to click into a thread from the subforum, not even from a search

Edit: for some reason the URL includes a YouTube string?

https://forums.penny-arcade.com/home/leaving?target=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYd_l3E7yOc#latest

Hahnsoo1

Now, when you click on threads in The PA Hub, it doesn't take you to a thread. It instead links you to the comic page for that day. I wonder if the latest changes are related to that. Maybe OPs with URLs posted in them in a certain way are just toast.

Phyphor

Looks like anything that includes a url bbcode tag early on (or maybe at all?) in the OP gets a 301 redirect, eg in https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/241986/bsg-exodus-game-17-human-victory I linked to the rulebooks near the top and it redirects to the first one

Bare urls seem fine

furlion

I can't even see the threads to see what they have in common but several of mine are giving that page a well.

Jazz

Yeah, I've seen that "Page Not Found" with a couple now (G&T No Man's Sky and D&D [EU]ropean Democracies) and I bet there's a bunch more.

Quetzi

Hahnsoo1 wrote: »

Now, when you click on threads in The PA Hub, it doesn't take you to a thread. It instead links you to the comic page for that day. I wonder if the latest changes are related to that. Maybe OPs with URLs posted in them in a certain way are just toast.

If you look at the URL for the threads that are breaking, it looks like it might be trying to do a "This link takes you to a different site, do you want to continue" style redirect page.

Which, given that PA comics aren't that, maybe is why it doesn't do that for those?

Or we have two issues simultaneously, who knows.

ArcTangent

I noticed the issue in other vanilla forums too. It's not only us, though it looks like we're getting hit worse.