I wanted to give you what I hope is the final update on the problem I was having, rather you were having, where people appeared to be unfollowing my blog. As I mentioned, back in January, some delightful engineers at WordPress dug into this problem and vowed to solve it. A couple of weeks ago, I received the following message:
On Feb 7 we shipped a fix that we believe will address this dropped blog subscribers issue. We found that in some cases where a user is logged out, and then logs in while on your page, a call to unFollow was unintentionally called. We fixed that, and also add more logging so we can more easily track the series of events that occur around login and follow/unfollow actions.
Happiness Engineers
We hope you’ll have nothing further to report, but of course we would really appreciate knowing if you see another case of dropped followers or someone not receiving email notifications.
I sincerely thank the engineers who worked to solve what had been a maddening problem. I also want to thank those of you who re-followed this blog (some, an extreme number of times). If you gave up re-following and resorted to checking in on my normal schedule, I think it is safe to go back in the water, as it were.
As for the second half of today’s title, that is directed to those of you whose blogs I missed this weekend. Saturday started out like an ordinary weekend day. I returned home from cat-sitting but found myself with very little time for Saturday things. A storm that was supposed to be mostly a rain event began with snow around noon. I decided to head back to Faith’s apartment before the roads became covered and people became idiots (the two always go together). I picked up dinner to-go and arrived in time to enjoy some basketball, feed Preston and setup my laptop. I managed to prepare the Thursday Doors Sunday Recap – then the Internet died – then the electricity went off. Fallen tree limbs canceled the rest of my plans.
The electricity returned around 11:00pm. Comcast said the Internet service returned much earlier, but who can be sure. By the time I opened my laptop yesterday, the inbox was bulging, and I had no hope of catching up because, in addition to everything else, Sunday only had 23 hours.
Yes, that’s my story. I’m blaming this on DST. I hope you are all well on your way to having a wonderful week.
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