Article discussion pages missing

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On the article about Russia’s population decline, the discussion page just says “The page you requested doesn’t exist or is private.” I’ve seen this a few times in the past couple of weeks–don’t recall the other articles, I’m afraid.

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There may be a glitch in posts being uploaded. @codinghorror may know more. I have seen it myself, but have not been the one to close the threads.

Edit: I reopened the topic you mentioned. Check and see if it’s working your end.

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Yep, that one’s working now. Thanks!

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Excellent! If you notice any others, let us know. It’s easy to fix. But hopefully the bug that causes it will get sorted soon.

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Hmm, what exactly happened here? I am unclear. The associated article topic exists looks OK to me, and I don’t see any close messages in it?

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Going to Russia's population declined by 7m (5%) between 1992 and 2009 and hitting “Show full post” is bringing up a “There was an error loading that post.” message for me.

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Oh I see

http://boingboing.net/2014/09/04/russias-population-declined.html

is what the first post links to. But the actual article is at

http://boingboing.net/2014/09/05/russias-population-declined.html

Looks like a quirk of midnight in… some time zone? I can edit the first post.

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Coast Guard rescues man in bubble suit - Boing Boing
Discussion page is missing, @Falcor @codinghorror

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Weird, @jlw deleted it 5 hours ago. Not sure why? I undeleted it.

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post was funny in the cms, rob later fixed it.

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This page is missing a discussion page as far as I can tell.

The Discuss link at the bottom does a weird two-step loop that just leads back to the original article, and searching for the discussion page amongst BBS itself finds nothing.

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I’ve just now noticed this seems to be a problem with all Kiki Sanford articles. The BBS pages don’t seem to exist, and the Discuss links at the bottom of her articles don’t go anywhere.

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This generally means the author doesn’t have an account on BBS as I recall cc: @beschizza @deanputney

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I just assumed this was because the author didn’t want a massive climate-denial trollfight.

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Aha I remembered. This is because the author does have a bbs account but lacks membership in the group to post new topics to the boing category!

I added her to the guest authors group so this should be fixed for future posts by Dr. Kiki.

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Thanks for working this out! I was wondering why I couldn’t reply to anything, AND why there were absolutely no comments generally on my articles this week.

Thank you!!!

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This one now says “comments are closed” when you hit the “discuss” link:

We gonna get to whack a few pinatas today, or not?

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So because I never go to BB any more I’ve missed out on a load of science posts? I has a sad.

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I would guess that thread auto-closed due to excess un-worked flags. I seem to recall that is a feature of the BBS.

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Not the only one with the loop, either.