Fri, 10 August 2007 The stats rollback / restoration was delayed slightly as Pittsburgh got hit was some severe thunderstorms which caused damage and electricity outages throughout the city. The process is once again underway. Stay tuned... [ update: 1:15pm ] Things are looking good, everyone. It's taking a little longer than we expected to get this thing going because we found a couple of "gotchas" that would have caused the numbers to look erratic (hits being bunched into days they didn't belong in, mostly). Though all the numbers would have been counted, we figured at this point, we should smooth out those wrinkles so that when your stats come back, they accurately represent your audience's downloading behavior. I know we say it a lot, but thanks again for hanging in there with us. [update 1:50pm] Because this is a rollback, we are literally rolling the clocks back on the engine that reports data to your stats display. Effectively, what you see right now is the stats as they were mid-day on 7/23. Shortly, the system will start moving forward in time as it reinserts the missing data. Since the clocks have been set back to a couple of weeks ago, recent entries in the stats folder may have seemed to disappear. They should reappear as we climb back through time from July 23rd to the present. There may also be a slight spike on July 23rd as we're inserting some data that never made it to the the entries from beforehand. Thanks for your patience. [update 11:50pm] We're facing some more challenges. After watching carefully as the collection service runs through ten full days of data, we are seeing what we believe to be inconsistencies. Further investigation is ongoing. There is a good chance we will be resetting / re-starting the rollback process more than once before the weekend is through. We're trying our hardest to have fresh, accurate, up to date numbers for you all when the week begins. Category: Stats -- posted at: 6:32 AM Comments[4] |

