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Good point. Our answer posting system uses a different path than our question posting system. We're in the middle of planning a rewrite of this stuff so I'll add this to the list.
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Chris Maunder
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Sounds good. It's also a bit strange that questions stop working but the rest of the site works fine?
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Read vs write. Our caching covers the sins of a database that can get overloaded, especially during updates or recrawls of content by our search system (which we've been updating heavily all day)
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Chris Maunder
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Yeah, I do always think the most impressive thing big sites like this one do is manage the load
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Hamsters are cheap. Hard to manage, but cheap.
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Chris Maunder
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I imagine it's getting them all to run in the same direction that's the trick
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That and the sawdust getting into the fans.
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Chris Maunder
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Still not working (for me anyway) Complete question, what I tried, etc. Hit submit and get an 'internal error' message.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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It's a time thing, I was answering a few and it suddenly stopped, then started again 30 minutes later
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... e.g. in the _main_ menu "help" sometimes you see "Bugs and Suggestions" and sometimes not. Simmilar in "community".
And no, please do not answer "it is a caching issue" 
Chrome, Version 73.0.3683.103 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit) and Version 74.0.3729.108 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit)
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I find the main page has different questions to the question list and the forum post list is either all the Lounge, or everything BUT the lounge.....
It will change if I refresh.....
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This is caused by a legacy decision a number of years ago. If there's high load (or we've just deployed updates and the servers are a bit slow) then sometimes the locations of certain forums can't be retrieved fast enough and so for a short time they won't appear.
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Chris Maunder
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Thank you.
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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elegant form to say "it's a caching issue"  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Chris Maunder
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Would it be possible to change the comments to QA input to use the full edit and preview tools, just like the the Solutions or the discussion entry boxes? It would be nice if
a) cut/paste links would behave the same as the other entry boxes, and
b) you could look at your response and check that you've matched your <code> or <pre> tags, for example
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Actually I'd prefer to go the other way and reduce / remove formatting from the comments altogether. There's too much temptation to work through answers in the comments rather than provide the answer as an actual answer. Comments should be brief and only for clarification. If there's an alternative viewpoint on an answer then why not post it as an alternative answer?
Having said that I'm open to discussing the why's and when's of commenting since this is actually a much bigger discussion
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Chris Maunder
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Sometimes, a solution gives incorrect information, and a rebuttal with a link and/or an example seems to be the best way to highlight that. I don't think that a new solution in that case would be the right thing. A comment pointing to either a reference that gives correct information, or an example that shows why the given solution is incorrect seems preferable to me. If you don't want to go to the full edit/preview, can we at least get a [preview] button, and maybe get pasted links to become clickable?
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I'm more than happy to auto-inlinkerate links. That's an excellent suggestion.
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Chris Maunder
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Small tip from a beginner: It is easy to let format the link by copy/paste into the answer field and cut/paste that into a comment 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Yes, been doing that for years.
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As you can see, I have no filters set, but the most modern item is nearly a day old.
Compare that to the home page:
And the oldest unanswered item there is just over five hours old:
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We've been swapping our search servers in and out for the last couple of days as we test a new feature. We have, as of about 20 secs ago, settled things down and they should do a crawl within the next few minutes that will get things back up to date.
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Chris Maunder
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Seems to have worked! 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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There still seems to be most of today's QA missing. At this time the questions jump from "yesterday" to "2 Hours 15 minutes ago". I know that a question I responded to was in that block and its gone missing. Are those questions gone for good, or does something need a poke to bring them back?
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