Whoops!
As some of you may have noticed, many of your online scores and winks disappeared yesterday. This was, unfortunately, not a planned event. Fortunately, we were able to recover pretty much all the scores thanks to us having a nightly backup of all of our data. We did, however, lose about six hours of scores and winks for any games completed from about 12:15 AM CST (that’s -6 GMT right now for those visiting from outside the US) until about 06:10 AM CST on March 2nd.
Now, how did all this happen? Without going into too many boring details, one lucky user was temporarily the holder of 99.99% of the scores and winks on the site. This was through no fault of their own. What caused it was a small logic error in some neat score tracking code that we have. It’s what enables us to keep track of your scores for you even if you happen to play a couple of games while you’re logged out.
If anyone is noticing anything strange with the site, please don’t hesitate to contact us via our support page. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you and we’ve made several updates to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
This entry was posted on Monday, March 3rd, 2008 at 2:53 am and is filed under Jenkat.
