Lost A Follower

Visit the site - I'll let you know when you lose followers.

[Lost A Follower @LostAFollower]

(You'll remain subscribed to the service, so your service will resume automatically with the next release.)

[Lost A Follower @LostAFollower]

The LostAFollower service is down. Server had a power hiccup, and the service had an outstanding bug. It will be up with the V.2 rewrite.

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@PatrickPatience The fix is really intrusive though, I'm putting it off until the platform rewrite, which is coming when I have time :-/

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@PatrickPatience So when it noticed that there was a difference in the sets, it emailed you the difference. Yaaaay! haha :)

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@PatrickPatience Oh :) The issue is that sometimes caching overlaps, so it was comparing your current followers to someone else's followers.

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@PatrickPatience And thanks for the feedback - I'm really sorry you got hit with massive email spam :(

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@PatrickPatience Take down the service until it I have time to fix it, or leave it running with a bug? How much did it bother you?

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@PatrickPatience So: what do you think? This problem randomly hits a user about once every week, so it is sporadic.

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@PatrickPatience The problem is that real life (ie, paying jobs and throwing a Barcamp) have taken over, and I have no time to debug it atm.

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@PatrickPatience That is the only outstanding bug with @LostAFollower I'm aware of - but it is a *doozy.*

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I WILL DESTROY ALL HUMANS. (Status: new bug found - @LostAFollower will very, very occasionally mass email a user with incorrect info.)

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Updates: we're cranking along nicely, fixing minor bugs here and there, focusing largely on a platform rewrite. Thanks to all bug reporters!

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Please please please though, if you find a bug or witness odd behavior, pass it along to @LostAFollower or @peasleer! Thank you all :D

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Things seem to be pretty solid - bug reports have slowed down dramatically, I think the major issues have been addressed.

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Sorry for the service interruptions throughout the day - Twitter got busy and I wasn't handling its errors gracefully. Fixed now!

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Flushing some changes, you may get a spurt of emails.

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@willw As far as the unsubscribe issue goes - there is a lag between unsubscribing and all the nodes clearing their caches.

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@willw Sorry to see you go, but thanks for helping me test the service while I had you.

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@willw The double-email problem is because my nodes are processing users so quickly that two of them had you at the same time. Sorry :-/

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@frijole Checks for that case should be put in place in the next set of bug fixes.