Photography

mnhtnbb

(31,408 posts) Sat Feb 17, 2024, 06:48 PM Feb 17

FEBRUARY PHOTO CONTEST Preliminary Threads posted in GD

Egads! I have just been caught in a server error snafu as I was posting the threads. It kept telling me to retry posting #3, so I did, and it turned out it actually WAS posting, but returning a message to me that it hadn't. I think it is now fixed--the multiple posts of #3 removed--and all the threads are active. I hope.

Anyway, here are the links

Preliminary thread 1 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218696212
Preliminary thread 2 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218696214
Preliminary thread 3 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218696216

We have a wonderful array of photos depicting many forms of love in the contest. Thank you to all the photographers who entered!

Please keep the threads kicked!

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FEBRUARY PHOTO CONTEST Preliminary Threads posted in GD (Original Post) mnhtnbb Feb 17 OP

Good job! Tom Kitten Feb 17 #1

Yes, same error I was getting. mnhtnbb Feb 17 #3

Not to worry, my dear mnhtnbb! All the threads are active and people are voting! CaliforniaPeggy Feb 17 #2

Frustration is an understatement. mnhtnbb Feb 17 #4

All's well that ends well justaprogressive Feb 17 #5

Yeah, that was weird. 2naSalit Feb 18 #6

Tom Kitten

(7,350 posts)

1. Good job!

Reply to mnhtnbb (Original post)

Sat Feb 17, 2024, 07:03 PM

Feb 17

Yeah I saw that. For awhile I was getting a cloudfare gateway error 504 that was coming from DU's end.
Seems to be fixed now!

mnhtnbb

(31,408 posts)

3. Yes, same error I was getting.

Reply to Tom Kitten (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 17, 2024, 08:34 PM

Feb 17

I'd never seen that particular message when trying to post. My heart almost stopped when I feared I might have lost the entire post right in the middle of posting Prelims. Had the content of my post been gone, it would have taken me at least 15-20 minutes to reconstruct it, all while the first two preliminary threads had been posted. Host's nightmare.
Fortunately, everything resolved, eventually.

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,729 posts)

2. Not to worry, my dear mnhtnbb! All the threads are active and people are voting!

Reply to mnhtnbb (Original post)

Sat Feb 17, 2024, 07:08 PM

Feb 17

Everything looks beautiful. I was trying to post elsewhere and had no end of trouble during that glitchy problem. I cannot imagine your frustration!

Well done!

mnhtnbb

(31,408 posts)

4. Frustration is an understatement.

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 17, 2024, 08:42 PM

Feb 17

See my post #3.

At first I thought it was my network connection with my laptop .Got my phone and discovered that wasn't it. Realized it was DU. Still, couldn't have happened at a worse time right in the middle of posting Prelims. Two threads up and working properly, with the third thread totally not posting. Feared I'd lost the content of the thread as well. In the end, all was fixed. Still, a nightmare for a contest host.

justaprogressive

(2,240 posts)

5. All's well that ends well

Reply to mnhtnbb (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 17, 2024, 11:32 PM

Feb 17

Great Effort

2naSalit

(86,834 posts)

6. Yeah, that was weird.

Reply to mnhtnbb (Original post)

Sun Feb 18, 2024, 12:26 AM

Feb 18

I was voting and it took forever so I waited to go back leave a comment.

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