Trivia Question of the Day acting up

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Trivia Question of the Day acting up

1laytonwoman3rd
Mar 28, 3:27 pm

The Trivia "Question of the Day" link seems to be taking me to the "answer another" feature. I've answered multiple questions today (starting about 7 hours ago) and every time I answer, another one pops up. It never gives me my stats ("You've answered the question 2 million days in a row"). I've gone in and out of the feature several times. The notification for the Question of the Day is lit up now, and will go away if I answer a question, but within a few minutes it lights up again, and has been doing so all day.

2paradoxosalpha
Mar 28, 9:18 pm

Yes, today seems to have far more than one "Question of the Day" ...

3norabelle414
Mar 28, 11:23 pm

Maybe the same thing that happened a few weeks ago: https://www.librarything.com/topic/378958

4kristilabrie
Mar 30, 7:39 am

I let the team know about this one, @AbigailAdams26 noticed this on Saturday, too. Hmm..

5paradoxosalpha
Mar 30, 8:17 am

It's behaving better now, although my "Number of days answered" has dropped to a highly inaccurate value of 2.

6knerd.knitter
Mar 31, 9:11 am

Sorry about this, but thanks >3 norabelle414: because that was exactly the problem. I'm going to need to figure out how to handle that better because I think when people see questions sometimes they go change the associated CK, but then that breaks the question, which matters for the QOTD. I will also write a script to recover people's streaks, so if you're streak is now 3 days, don't worry. This might not happen right away though because I am just recovering from pneumonia, and won't be able to work a full day today. Thanks for your patience.

7norabelle414
Mar 31, 9:16 am

>6 knerd.knitter: Yeah, the original QOTD for the 28th was not good CK - it had "1922" listed as an "important event". I considered changing it myself but I didn't want to break anything.

I hope you feel better soon!

8clamairy
Mar 31, 9:28 am

>6 knerd.knitter: Oh no! I hope you mend quickly!

9knerd.knitter
Apr 1, 8:36 am

Okay, so I wrote a script to reset the streaks for you from missing Saturday's question. If someone can let me know if they see a more reasonable number now, that would be great.

10laytonwoman3rd
Edited: Apr 1, 9:47 am

>9 knerd.knitter: yes...my streak has been restored. Thank you!!