Long Tale Press

Site Instability

by Jason on 01/06/2009

Yesterday I discovered a bug in the Writer Zone pages; authors who have only one submission were unable to access the Writer Zone from Saturday evening through Monday evening. My bad. In doing some code-cleanup maintenance, I managed to break something. It's fixed now.

I'm truly sorry for the mistake, for blocking writers' ability to check in on their submissions, and on a broader note for having introduced both this bug and the earlier message-reply bug I fixed yesterday. While on one level a certain amount of instability is probably inevitable when introducing new features, on another level these sorts of bugs are really not acceptable to us even for short periods of time. The buggy behavior of our website over the past three days doesn't match the level of service and professionalism that myself and the other owners of Long Tale Press strive for.

My apologies to everyone. I will be evaluating the procedures I use for testing new features and bug fixes before I deploy them to the live site, in an effort to do a better job in the future. My apologies.