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mnhtnbb

(32,140 posts)
Sat Feb 17, 2024, 05:48 PM Feb 2024

FEBRUARY PHOTO CONTEST Preliminary Threads posted in GD

Egads! I have just been caught in a server error snafu as I was posting the threads. It kept telling me to retry posting #3, so I did, and it turned out it actually WAS posting, but returning a message to me that it hadn't. I think it is now fixed--the multiple posts of #3 removed--and all the threads are active. I hope.

Anyway, here are the links

Preliminary thread 1 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218696212
Preliminary thread 2 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218696214
Preliminary thread 3 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218696216

We have a wonderful array of photos depicting many forms of love in the contest. Thank you to all the photographers who entered!

Please keep the threads kicked!

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FEBRUARY PHOTO CONTEST Preliminary Threads posted in GD (Original Post) mnhtnbb Feb 2024 OP
Good job! Tom Kitten Feb 2024 #1
Yes, same error I was getting. mnhtnbb Feb 2024 #3
Not to worry, my dear mnhtnbb! All the threads are active and people are voting! CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2024 #2
Frustration is an understatement. mnhtnbb Feb 2024 #4
All's well that ends well justaprogressive Feb 2024 #5
Yeah, that was weird. 2naSalit Feb 2024 #6

Tom Kitten

(7,371 posts)
1. Good job!
Sat Feb 17, 2024, 06:03 PM
Feb 2024

Yeah I saw that. For awhile I was getting a cloudfare gateway error 504 that was coming from DU's end.
Seems to be fixed now!

mnhtnbb

(32,140 posts)
3. Yes, same error I was getting.
Sat Feb 17, 2024, 07:34 PM
Feb 2024

I'd never seen that particular message when trying to post. My heart almost stopped when I feared I might have lost the entire post right in the middle of posting Prelims. Had the content of my post been gone, it would have taken me at least 15-20 minutes to reconstruct it, all while the first two preliminary threads had been posted. Host's nightmare.
Fortunately, everything resolved, eventually.

CaliforniaPeggy

(152,475 posts)
2. Not to worry, my dear mnhtnbb! All the threads are active and people are voting!
Sat Feb 17, 2024, 06:08 PM
Feb 2024

Everything looks beautiful. I was trying to post elsewhere and had no end of trouble during that glitchy problem. I cannot imagine your frustration!

Well done!

mnhtnbb

(32,140 posts)
4. Frustration is an understatement.
Sat Feb 17, 2024, 07:42 PM
Feb 2024

See my post #3.

At first I thought it was my network connection with my laptop .Got my phone and discovered that wasn't it. Realized it was DU. Still, couldn't have happened at a worse time right in the middle of posting Prelims. Two threads up and working properly, with the third thread totally not posting. Feared I'd lost the content of the thread as well. In the end, all was fixed. Still, a nightmare for a contest host.

2naSalit

(93,529 posts)
6. Yeah, that was weird.
Sat Feb 17, 2024, 11:26 PM
Feb 2024

I was voting and it took forever so I waited to go back leave a comment.

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