A Very Unfortunate Downtime

1 Week Gold Account Medal




Happy Luminaire to all timezones! For those of you that checked Subeta earlier today, you may have noticed an issue in the way that Luminaire presents went out. Unfortunately, an incorrect script was used to process the many gifts given by generous Subetans, and they were given out via the (much oudated) "stocking” method for many users. This caused an influx of sidebar events rather than the (much preferred) method of seeing your gifts gathered on one page. More importantly, and more detrimentally, it caused some gifts to go out more than once - a big problem for things like Custom Wearables or CSC cards!



We've spent the last few hours trying to figure out the best route to take. We considered manually deleting items, but we couldn't be certain which items were legitimately sent in multiples. We were looking at doing a rollback, but it's about the worst day of the year for that, (not that there's EVER a good time for a rollback) and wasn't possible to set up until tomorrow, meaning the site may have been offline for up to 48 hours. We obviously didn't want this to happen - not at a time of year where you want to be well-wishing your friends on the site!



So we've come to this: we trust you guys, and we don't think it's fair for you to lose any effort you've put into the site because of a mistake on our end. So we're asking you this: to please delete the items you may have received via the "stocking events". (HERE is a handy link to your events page in case you want to keep track of what you received)We ask you to take some time to enjoy the holiday while we work on our end to resolve this as quickly as we can. We will be updating you as soon as possible (this could mean it might take a few days) with the link to the Trees so you can open your gifts properly. This is a special time of year for everybody - including the staff - and getting things like this resolved is a lot more difficult for us.



If you did not receive any stocking related events, you’re in the clear and don’t have to worry about deleting any items. You’ll just have to wait for the trees to open, which we will make a separate news post about!



Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience or upset caused, and as a goodwill gesture, you can now get a 1 Week Gold Account Medal via the free gift. We are also giving each user 250csc (added to your on-hand credits), putting a few extra gifts under the tree, and until Monday ALL quests are weekend quests.



Happy Luminaire, thank you for continuing to support Subeta, and here's to a slightly less chaotic New Year!
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Posted by SubetaTeam

janine
@Amber (too many comments to read sorry if you answered this already)
So we delete everything that we got... and we'll get it all again when we're able to open the tree presents?
Book
Just focus on enjoying your holidays and take all the time you need to fix the site. hugs
Zaphire
I "cleaned" out the items I had before in my inventory (quentin rewards...) and now I'm left with 182 items of which 5 were locked before.
2 stacks of duplicates are not mentioned in my ping history and I'm not sure what to do with them. I should probably delete the 100 CSC cards, but with the old box of ornaments (x 3) I'm not even sure if I had one in my inventory before the script or not ;_;
LittleStereo
Subeta, <3
Hobbit
Aaaw, guys, I'm so sorry that something like this happened, but I'm very grateful that you did so much to make it better:) I hope you have a lovely christmas anyway <3
bookgirl2418
Thanks for spending your day trying to get this to work for us! I really appreciate the GA and CSC!!
Synbar
So, chemo-brained here, trying to clarify...want to make sure I do the right thing. Are all the items we need to delete the ones listed as "stocking" events? Or do we delete only duplicates? And do we keep anything else that isn't on the stocking list? Sorry, not really stupid, but overtired and easily confused rueful grin
Julie
You have 10 items on hand. We will only display 1000 at a time.
WTH???
Nanny
@Amber Just got on and Glad to see you all back .. Merry Christmas Everyone .. but I a little confused .. Ol Nanny only got 1 item and i got some item from Melody do I also delete hers Huggles
Kraze
I think I love this site and it's people.
Thank you and happy holidays.
Taters
Woah subeta, I didnt even ask for anything but the site to be back up as I was missing it. To get csc and such is such a nice surprise! Thank you for the hard work and presents!
sweetsgirl12
This place just gets better and better!

Thank you staff and happy holidays!
Bakura
I'm a lil sad only because I was looking forward to actually getting to open something today, but things happen! Thank you guys for working so hard to try to fix things ASAP.
LadyTamarwen
"If you did not receive any stocking related events, you’re in the clear and don’t have to worry about deleting any items. You’ll just have to wait for the trees to open, which we will make a separate news post about!"

I didn't see this. What a relief! :D
MarquiseOnionGirl
You guys are the most amazing mods I've ever had to the pleasure of dealing with. Seriously, I've been on a lot of sites and dealt with a lot of mods in the last ten years and I have never met such a brilliant band of mods. You've always been quick to respond to problems and you're incredibly generous. And you just spent your holiday fixing this site. So thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for all your hard work. <3
Titan
Thank you guys so much, and I appreciate the work y'all put into sorting out this issue :). Happy Holidays everyone!!
Wonder_594
Subeta is simply the best site with the best Staff.
Thank you for fixing this on Christmas day and so quickly, it means a lot to all of us.
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays! :heart:
LadyTamarwen
I gave out hundreds of millions worth of items. sobs If it occurred anything like my tree did, they got nothing. I'm also sorry the staff must work on Christmas. If it consoles you, i worked many a Christmas far away from home in the military. It sucks. Period.
soo
Thank you though!!!
Thankful for the staff :)
Amber STAFF
@Speiro Yep, we've also included some other new bold parts ;)
Damon
Thank you guys for the gifts and sorry the site acted like the grinch today.... Happy Holidays!
soo
Thank you though!!!
Thankful for the staff :)
Strength
The disappointment and frustration is strong, I'm not gonna lie, and I can only imagine how the staff feels-- but the amount of effort you guys have put into rectifying the situation and even compensating us with nice extra gifts when you didn't have to is pretty amazing in and of itself, so thank you. <3
Lyric
I usually am not one to jump on the bandwagon, but I want you to know I'm yet another loyal player who wants to thank you for your hard work and dedication on a holiday. Regardless if you celebrate or not, most things are shut down anyhow so I'm sure if it wasn't family time; it was much needed/wanted planned relax time. Thank you so much again! You guys rock. :)
Miraa
Thank you for your efforts :heart:
Mythology
Wow, Thanks Subeta Team! and a Merry Lumineve/Merry Christmas to all of you! Thanks for the wonderful gifts
honey_bear
I was on earlier when I received the event notifications about the stocking. I had already moved several items to my wardrobe by the time the site was taken down. The majority of them were lifelike dolls from my wishlist. However with the "Recently Added" option no longer available in the new wardrobe and the link in the post to show me my events coming up blank....I'm just confused about what I should do. Any help would be great.
Speiro
Quote:
So we've come to this: we trust you guys, and we don't think it's fair for you to lose any effort you've put into the site because of a mistake on our end. So we're asking you this: to please delete the items you may have received via the "stocking events".
You might want to bold that so the tl;dr crowd doesn't miss it. :P
Mabon
Thank you one and all for all your hard work <3 you guys are super
Luka
@Amber Thank you for the information.
Star_Gazer
So where not suppose to be able to open them at this moment ? I'm confuced-, can we still gift or no?
Ying
@Amber

Cool beans. Is this a teaser for what we actually got? Very surprised by my friends generosity..

Is it ok to add some more stuff to their trees?! hahaa.
Amber STAFF
@Ying Yes. Delete it all.
Jadie
Thank you for working when you could be with your friends and family to help make our day! It means a lot you guys! <3
KarenP
thank you so much subeta for fixing this on Christmas day. It means a lot to us users. I hope you all get to enjoy this evening and not have to work all through the evening.

Thank you also for the extra csc and the GA. You are so kind and generous. Thank you for being awesome and keeping us in the know through the whole process. Merry Christmas to you and your families. hugs
Ying
So are we supposed to delete everything that we got? I'm fine with that.. just need the clarification. o.o
Laurey
Glad to see the site's back up! I didn't get any events, so I guess that's good for me. Hopefully everything is figured out alright, thanks for working hard to get it sorted! Looking forward to trees being released :)
Pluma
i have been working a lot and had no idea this had happened until a few hours ago. thanks subeta, for being so up front about what's happened and for really having a giving spirit. and also, thank you for your trust in us, your userbase! we love you guys and it means a lot to hear that you love us too. :D merry christmas, holidays, etc. hope your work day goes smoothly from here on out!
Ave
I'm glad the site is back up, so sorry you guys had to work on Christmas <3 You are the bestest!
Snuggle
I've been very busy at the animal shelter for most of the morning, so this didn't inconvenience me very much. I never saw any strange events and it looks my inventory is exactly how I left it. I was actually intending to skip quests because I'm so busy, but since you guys did this for us I'm going to take a break and do those quests! Thank you for all your hard work, and the gold account medal. My GA was going to expire a few days before Winter Quarter, but now I can have it for the rest of my winter break! Oh, and I just saw I received 250 CSC as well. You guys spoil us~ I hope all the staff finds time to relax and enjoy the holidays.

No worries about the late presents. I'm actually not opening a lot of my presents in real life until this weekend when my family can come over anyways.

Merry Christmas, Happy Luminaire, and Happy Holidays!
hugs all around
lull
Just want to clarify; I should delete all the items I got right?
Then I will get my real items when the trees give out their gifts?
Amber STAFF
@Luka If you didn’t get any events, you’re good! You just have to wait until we open trees to open gifts. :) Not everyone got the events because the script goes by userid and it timed out at some point, so we weren’t exactly sure where it stopped!
Lugosi
Though obviously I do understand that no one wanted this. Just an unfortunate thing for this time of year.
MerlinPendragon
I didn't get any event, so I have no clue what I got ?
Hamda
Thank you for the 250 csc + 1 week gold account medal! now for the actual presents @.@
Lugosi
This is a really sad thing to come to. =( No gifts today, Subeta has been down all day, and now all of the quests are weekend quests but quests are already done for me. =(
kaleidoscope
Thanks so much for letting us know what's going on and for being so thoughtful to grant us not only a GA for a week but also for the extra credits and making all quests weekend quests. [HEART]
Francine
What do we do if items were used already? Like read books to pets or food or whatever?
Fate
@Rah - Thank you for the response! Glad I don't have to delete anything! strolls to a corner and starts biting her nails as she waits for her pressies
Tserel
Oh man all quests are weekend but I already finished mine today??? I always miss out by finishing stuff early uwu

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