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November 13, 2004 Link to this post
Spoilers, and cookies.
Man... you guys are hardcore. I had a small problem with the spoiler system today - took me about 15 minutes to fix it. In that time, I received 10 notes - a couple were just confused, 3 were angry, the rest were giving me a heads-up... our spoiler system was broken, and was showing weird stuff. Remember, this is a low-budget operation; I don't have a development server, so fixes happen on the live server, in real time; sometimes, I have to put some debugging code in to see what's going wrong. If you see odd stuff, how about you wait 10 minutes and then look again, before you start mailing me that it's broken? Thanks.
While we're on the spoiler system - there are a number of you that continue to have trouble setting a spoiler cookie on your computer. With one exception, every single problem that I've heard about involves Windows XP with SP2 installed. I've done as much testing as I possibly can without an actual SP2 machine (I've had more than a dozen people with this combination playing with settings to see what works and what doesn't) - without exception, all of my testers were able to set cookies successfully. If you can't, it's more than likely that you have something blocking cookies - something in your privacy settings, or a software firewall (like Norton Internet Security), or something similar. There's nothing at all I can do about that. That's your computer. You need to accept first-party cookies, and (I think) accept session cookies. Beyond that, any blockage is on your computer; I can't tell you what's wrong, because I'm not there. Sorry. (Louis Wu 19:36:38 UTC)
