A Very Unfortunate Downtime

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!
Posted by SubetaTeam



Oh, and I don't seem to have any stocking events, but that might be cause I wasn't online at the time.
Thank you for all your hard work during the holidays and I hope you'll be able to enjoy the rest of it c:

Amber
STAFF
@omiai As the news post says, it’s going to be a day or two until we open the trees. :)
@Lovelie You’ll have rest of the weekend for those goodies ;)
@Gryffindor Quickstock via shop! There is a delete section!
@Marlboro You’re fine! It just means that you won’t get your gifts until we open the trees. Basically what happened is that the wrong script was used, so some people got their gifts via events (like three times), which isn’t what is supposed to happen. It didn’t happen to everyone though because the script timed out. If you didn’t get those events, you are fine! We’ll be making a post when we open the trees for everyone to get their gifts. :) YOU WILL GET GIFTS DON’T WORRY
@Lovelie You’ll have rest of the weekend for those goodies ;)
@Gryffindor Quickstock via shop! There is a delete section!
@Marlboro You’re fine! It just means that you won’t get your gifts until we open the trees. Basically what happened is that the wrong script was used, so some people got their gifts via events (like three times), which isn’t what is supposed to happen. It didn’t happen to everyone though because the script timed out. If you didn’t get those events, you are fine! We’ll be making a post when we open the trees for everyone to get their gifts. :) YOU WILL GET GIFTS DON’T WORRY


I have no events and nothing in my inventory. As I had gifts under my tree I don't understand this makes no sense to me. Did I lose all my gifts?
@Marlboro I don't think that's the case- I didn't get any stocking events/alerts or items in my inventory, but I know there should be things under my tree because I was in the gifting threads. Maybe the bad script hadn't gone through everyone.

Thanks for listening to someone's (I don't know who) suggestion to give out a medal instead of automatically activating the gold account, now I can save it for when I feel ready to use it, as can other people who are busy.

No stocking events for me, which I'm glad about, but I seem to have more CSC than I remember having....
Oh wow, I got on earlier but apparently missed all of this!
Sorry you guys had to deal with this, and thank you for working on Christmas! <3
Sorry you guys had to deal with this, and thank you for working on Christmas! <3
YAY YOU'RE BACK ;___; THANK GOD
thankfully, I didn't get ANY stocking events, as I was offline when the script ran (I RFed the SubQ, read a blog, came back ~15 mins later, the site was down)
I appreciate all the time you took to resolve this issue! :blush: And thank you so much for the free GA!!
thankfully, I didn't get ANY stocking events, as I was offline when the script ran (I RFed the SubQ, read a blog, came back ~15 mins later, the site was down)
I appreciate all the time you took to resolve this issue! :blush: And thank you so much for the free GA!!
Thank you Subeta Team for all the effort-- I'm sure everyone can agree this isn't what anyone would feel like handling on a holiday. You guys are great <3



what a nightmare for you guys D:
thank you for working during the holidays..can't imagine the stress :(
<3 you subetateam
thank you for working during the holidays..can't imagine the stress :(
<3 you subetateam

I got 1488 items via stockings, I really don't have time to manually delete all those O_o lol.
Awww I already did all my quests today :(
Thanks for all the the hard work getting the site back up!
Thanks for all the the hard work getting the site back up!
amazing of you to sort this out so quick! thank you!
when can we claim the gifts under our trees by the way? or can we do it already, and if so, where? XD
when can we claim the gifts under our trees by the way? or can we do it already, and if so, where? XD

Guys, thank you so much, I can feel the disappointment in your post, come on, it can happen, we're cool...thanks for the awesome gift! Happy Lumi and Happy Holidays guys :heart:




Hopefully the issue with trees and all go smoothly and we'll get to open our trees soon