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11:58 AM
Greetings! MathJax seems to be broken (does nothing on cs.SE and cstheory.SE, [Math Processing Error] on math.SE). It has had hickups for about a week or so, but never this bad. What is going on?
 
@Raphael Have you tried a refresh (hard refresh - shift+F5 I think) and clearing your cache/restarting your browser? Everything seems fine on crypto and mathjax is loaded from the mathjax CDN, as opposed to from SE.
 
CTRL+F5 does not help, neither does clearing caches and restarting browser.
Others have the same problem, see the chat of math.SE
 
Oh, hmmm. Does seem to be broken here also.
But only on CStheory. Wonder if they've altered the config with you guys?
@RebeccaChernoff changed any mathjax stuff on cstheory recently? :)
 
12:14 PM
Curious, neither math.SE nor cs.SE work for me.
All the AJAX seems sluggish today.
"Unable to connect" -- uh oh.
 
@Raphael yeah been facing slow response
 
@Raphael Could be a problem on the CDN, and I have it cached for crypto.
 
@Sathya @Ninefingers any experience how long it takes tech to fix stuff like that?
 
@Raphael generally not more than few minutes
this must be an unplanned outage, planned outages generally will be plastered all over meta and/or system message :p
 
@Sathya Good to know. :)
It is fascinating to see how performance enables a site like SE to work at all; if it was as sluggish like this all the time, who would want to use it?
 
12:24 PM
No, don't despair! We're going to repair! RT @marcgravell: Yes, yes, we know! #stackoverflow
@Raphael aye, totally.
 
@Sathya I did you include this? I would like to paste it to other channels.
figured it out
 
Well that explains why SO was down :P
 
@Raphael sure, it was @balpha's public tweet
 
The crash roughly coincides with our first question about a P?=NP crank paper on cs.SE beta. Go figure.
@Sathya I did not know that pasting a URL makes the Chat do this nice layout.
 
@Raphael haha
@Raphael "oneboxing" as it's known as in chat parlance
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Q: What links and sites are handled specially in chat?

Juha SyrjäläThere is special linking to some sites in chat. What is the full list of supported and integrated sites?

 
12:29 PM
Yes, we are back.
 
@Sathya Thanks!
 
@Raphael pleasure.
 
Bye, people.
 
@KannappanSampath bye.
 
@Sathya The chat has many cool features. It is hard to use it only with the keyboard (in particular responding or selecting people from the @-suggestion drop-in). Or are there nice shortcuts?
 
12:31 PM
@Raphael not officially - there are unoffical user scripts. This one:
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Q: SE Chat Modifications -- Keyboard navigation and commands for chat

Tim Stone Screenshot Use /command shortcuts to perform common chat tasks: See message history inline: Easily preview replied-to messages: And much, much more... About Legends tell of a prolific Meta Stack Overflow chatter who despised using their mouse above all things. In an effort to keep t...

 
mathjax.org seems to be down, too.
Ok,now I am convinced userscripts are a useful thing. Was hesitant to weigh down FF even more until now.
 
12:48 PM
@Raphael you can use them natively in Chrome ;)
time to head home, back later
 
@Sathya cya
By the way, it is kind of annoying that the moderator toolbar shows me a chunky icon proclaiming "1 suggested edit" but I can not deal with it because it is a tag wiki edit (by myself) and I can not yet decide about those. Is there a way around this?
That was quick, thank you. I guess the underlying problem/bug is still there, though? ;)
 
1:17 PM
We're experiencing some unexpected downtime. We're investigating. Sorry for the inconvenience.
 
1:55 PM
@Raphael well, someone will get to it to approve it
 
@Sathya Someone did, minutes after my inquiry here.
 
 
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3:08 PM
It is the day of dead CDNs, apparently. Not the editor bars are gone.
"Error: The connection to ws://sockets.ny.stackexchange.com/ was interrupted while the page was loading.
Source File: http://cdn.sstatic.net/js/full.js?v=664ef139404d
Line: 6"
 
3:19 PM
Seems to be related to MathJax, though. Maybe the toolbar script gets hung up because loading MathJax before that fails, or something.
 
3:41 PM
I wonder how many of the beta communities are like this...
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Q: Call to Action: Ask More Questions & Broaden Our Scope

Tom WijsmanWhere are we today? Doing a comparison of back in the days and now, we have appeared to improve on everything except for the amount of questions per day. We've went from 2 questions per day to almost 1 question per day. As a logical result, this results in more answers on existing questions. Th...

If only I could sort this page by these statistics; but I think one third of beta sites graduate, one third is somewhat OK and the last third is kinda/really bad...
And well, then another question is how well the graduated beta sites perform.
There should be a CHAOS-like team purely for betas...
Meh, got myself temporarily locked out of Stack Exchange. But on a first look the graduated sites look good.
 
4:49 PM
@TomWijsman we;re facing a similar problem in Cog Sci
 
5:17 PM
just another post that we see.
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A: Converting RTF to Word using command line tools

hfdghdfClick here! This works with reference links as well.

 
what's the angle on posts like that?
 
5:38 PM
@awoodland convert to comment/delete. Generally latter, since it's mainly by spam users. If it's a new user, we leave a comment explaining why it's not a good answer. If no reply then it gets deleted
 
@Sathya I meant why would anybody see posting like that as a good use of their time
it must have been ninja edited then too - when I saw it there was just two links and they made no sense at all
@Sathya hey look a sockpuppet too? superuser.com/a/400296/45647
 
@awoodland yep, partners in crime heh
@awoodland damn, lots of spam with that URL. Thanks for the tip.
 

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