Sidebar WTF never opening

henke37

I have a strange bug, when I click on the sidebar heading on the main page, nothing happens. This is a problem since it doesn't show the topic list when closed and it always defaults to closed for some reason.

accalia

relocated to bugs category.

can you provide a screenshot, and what browser you are using when the issue occurs?

Jaloopa

I got the same thing earlier, and all the articles had 0 comments, last comment @ none on them.
Looks fine now though

hungrier

I think I'm seeing the same thing

although Chrome's dev tools (and the fact that none of the other panels open or close) suggest that the panel is just empty.

accalia

.... anyone put any HTML in titles lately?

cause it did that last time i experimented with adding a <div> tag to the title of a sidebar topic.....

filed under: razzum frazzum.... the one time i don't want to make a hidden comment......

boomzilla

I don't see anything weird looking at the list of topics in the sidebar right now.

Paging @apapadimoulis / @mark_bowytz

apapadimoulis

looks like it’s working now; must have been a momentary outage.

boomzilla

Yep, stuff is there now for me, too.

Server cooties, I'm sure.

accalia

@boomzilla said:

Server cooties, I'm sure.

we have something worse than that i'm sure....

Server crabs i think is what we have.

hungrier

@accalia said:

gential crabs

They wear top hats with monocles?

accalia

very tiny ones, yes.

loopback0

@hungrier said:

They wear top hats with monocles?

@abarker's inspiration, so I heard on the grapevine.

Onyx

@accalia said:

.... anyone put any HTML in titles lately?

Can I just point out that this made me laugh? A sad, cynical laugh, but it was a good one.

darkmatter

you still exist, what?

Onyx

@darkmatter said:

you still exist, what?

Like a ninja in the night, I stalk the Internet. You only saw me because I allowed it.

Arantor

@accalia said:

we have something worse than that i'm sure....

Server crabs i think is what we have.

Darn. If it were headcrabs, we could get @Onyx on the case.

Onyx

I got it!

riking

I don't care if she's debeaked, that thing scares the shit out of me!"

-- Barney
-- Michael Scott

ben_lubar

"What?" -- Richard Nixon

accalia

"Arooooooooooooo!" - Richard Nixon's Head

Arantor

Say, where is @RichardNixonBot anyway?

accalia

Hmm..... Good question.... Who was running him?

henke37

And it's broken again.

accalia

so'd discourse. we had another flare up of advanced server cooties.

henke37

Ah. Cooties, that explains it.

accalia

yeah.... they are, unfortunately a thing.

Arantor

They have been since May.

boomzilla

@Arantor said:

They have been since ~~May~~kindergarten

FTFM

tar

@hungrier said:

They wear top hats with monocles?

henke37

The cooties are back.

hhaamu

I'm getting these cooties all the time. Well, at least once a week. Right now, in fact. They generally fix themselves in a few hours.

FWIW, the relevant generated HTML on the main page is this:

   <aside>
      <h5 class="heading"><a class="clean" href="#"><i class="icon-list"></i>Sidebar WTF</a></h5>
      <div class="articleList hideNonDesktop">
         <ul>
         </ul>
      </div>
   </aside>

So, um, whatever is generating those is failing to include a single link. @apapadimoulis's turf?

hhaamu

You know, it's definitely cooties in that there's a second symptom.

When this happens, all the articles on the front page say 0 Comments - Last Comment @ -none- -- although sometimes it manages to have a timestamp for the non-existing last comment.

And if I click the 0 comments link (e.g. this) to the 'comments preview' page, it says there are no comments yet. The Continue this discussion on Dicsource link on that page leads to a 404: http://what.thedailywtf.com/t//0

Some sort of connectivity issue with the front page and the forums servers? All that's missing is PHP spewing out mysql_connect() errors except that this isn't PHP and there's no MySQL, thank $ENV{DEITY}

aliceif

dkf

Just when you start to think Discourse is the ~~worst of the worst~~WTF of the WTF, along comes the main site!