A Very Unfortunate Downtime



Happy Luminaire to all timezones! For those of you that checked Subeta earlier today, you may have noticed an issue in the way that Luminaire presents went out. Unfortunately, an incorrect script was used to process the many gifts given by generous Subetans, and they were given out via the (much oudated) "stocking” method for many users. This caused an influx of sidebar events rather than the (much preferred) method of seeing your gifts gathered on one page. More importantly, and more detrimentally, it caused some gifts to go out more than once - a big problem for things like Custom Wearables or CSC cards!

We've spent the last few hours trying to figure out the best route to take. We considered manually deleting items, but we couldn't be certain which items were legitimately sent in multiples. We were looking at doing a rollback, but it's about the worst day of the year for that, (not that there's EVER a good time for a rollback) and wasn't possible to set up until tomorrow, meaning the site may have been offline for up to 48 hours. We obviously didn't want this to happen - not at a time of year where you want to be well-wishing your friends on the site!

So we've come to this: we trust you guys, and we don't think it's fair for you to lose any effort you've put into the site because of a mistake on our end. So we're asking you this: to please delete the items you may have received via the "stocking events". (HERE is a handy link to your events page in case you want to keep track of what you received)We ask you to take some time to enjoy the holiday while we work on our end to resolve this as quickly as we can. We will be updating you as soon as possible (this could mean it might take a few days) with the link to the Trees so you can open your gifts properly. This is a special time of year for everybody - including the staff - and getting things like this resolved is a lot more difficult for us.

If you did not receive any stocking related events, you’re in the clear and don’t have to worry about deleting any items. You’ll just have to wait for the trees to open, which we will make a separate news post about!

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience or upset caused, and as a goodwill gesture, you can now get a 1 Week Gold Account Medal via the free gift. We are also giving each user 250csc (added to your on-hand credits), putting a few extra gifts under the tree, and until Monday ALL quests are weekend quests.

Happy Luminaire, thank you for continuing to support Subeta, and here's to a slightly less chaotic New Year!

December 25, 2015, 5:32 pm by Lirikai
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Thanks, you guys!

December 25, 2015, 5:32 pm by Amane
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I'm also assuming a separate post will go out when tree gifts are accessible...? I don't seem to have any unnatural events, so I didn't get hit with the stocking method. :0

December 25, 2015, 5:32 pm by Kaje
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so sad because luminaire is the extent of my holiday celebration. thanks for the things making up for it...such a disappointment, though, especially to those of us who aren't having a busy holiday with family and friends.

December 25, 2015, 5:32 pm by Fate
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I wasn't on site when all this happened, so from what I can see, I have no events whatsoever. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? LOL

December 25, 2015, 5:32 pm by Cardamom
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Thank you all for working on this holiday, not something you could have predicted and you did admirably to try and fix it! <3

December 25, 2015, 5:31 pm by mutant
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<3 <3 <3

December 25, 2015, 5:31 pm by Jessica
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Thank you for listening to my suggestion of giving us the GA medal instead of the other way!

Hopefully the issue with trees and all go smoothly and we'll get to open our trees soon

December 25, 2015, 5:31 pm by Frizzy_Lizzy
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But I already did a bunch of quests!!!

December 25, 2015, 5:31 pm by Rah
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Also here to answer questions with Amber!

December 25, 2015, 5:31 pm by Trees
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Oh, and I don't seem to have any stocking events, but that might be cause I wasn't online at the time.

December 25, 2015, 5:30 pm by Guardian
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Thank you for all your hard work during the holidays and I hope you'll be able to enjoy the rest of it c:

December 25, 2015, 5:30 pm by Amber
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As the news post says, it’s going to be a day or two until we open the trees. :) You’ll have rest of the weekend for those goodies ;) Quickstock via shop! There is a delete section! You’re fine! It just means that you won’t get your gifts until we open the trees. Basically what happened is that the wrong script was used, so some people got their gifts via events (like three times), which isn’t what is supposed to happen. It didn’t happen to everyone though because the script timed out. If you didn’t get those events, you are fine! We’ll be making a post when we open the trees for everyone to get their gifts. :) YOU WILL GET GIFTS DON’T WORRY

December 25, 2015, 5:30 pm by Ark
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woot!

December 25, 2015, 5:30 pm by Cresenta
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I have no events and nothing in my inventory. As I had gifts under my tree I don't understand this makes no sense to me. Did I lose all my gifts?

December 25, 2015, 5:30 pm by girlikecupcake
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I don't think that's the case- I didn't get any stocking events/alerts or items in my inventory, but I know there should be things under my tree because I was in the gifting threads. Maybe the bad script hadn't gone through everyone.

December 25, 2015, 5:30 pm by Faery
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Thank you, you guys are amazing

December 25, 2015, 5:30 pm by Trees
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Thanks for listening to someone's (I don't know who) suggestion to give out a medal instead of automatically activating the gold account, now I can save it for when I feel ready to use it, as can other people who are busy.

December 25, 2015, 5:30 pm by Amae
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No stocking events for me, which I'm glad about, but I seem to have more CSC than I remember having....

December 25, 2015, 5:29 pm by Edinburgh
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Oh wow, I got on earlier but apparently missed all of this!

Sorry you guys had to deal with this, and thank you for working on Christmas! <3

December 25, 2015, 5:29 pm by Fray
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YAY YOU'RE BACK ;___; THANK GOD

thankfully, I didn't get ANY stocking events, as I was offline when the script ran (I RFed the SubQ, read a blog, came back ~15 mins later, the site was down)

I appreciate all the time you took to resolve this issue! 😊 And thank you so much for the free GA!!

December 25, 2015, 5:29 pm by Amane
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Thank you Subeta Team for all the effort-- I'm sure everyone can agree this isn't what anyone would feel like handling on a holiday. You guys are great <3

December 25, 2015, 5:29 pm by nier
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i wasnt awake when this happened lmao, so im also ok

December 25, 2015, 5:29 pm by Marine
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That's really sweet of you guys! I hope you get it all sorted out, I'm sure it'll go fine.

December 25, 2015, 5:28 pm by Marlboro
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If someone, like me, got nothing at all, no events and no items (I was not on during the mess) that means I don't have any gifts? I don't really understand X_X

December 25, 2015, 5:28 pm by Tserel
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Oh my. Hopefully it all ends up well

December 25, 2015, 5:28 pm by ren
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what a nightmare for you guys D: thank you for working during the holidays..can't imagine the stress :( <3 you subetateam

December 25, 2015, 5:27 pm by Francine
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I got 1488 items via stockings, I really don't have time to manually delete all those O_o lol.

December 25, 2015, 5:27 pm by horizon
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Love you guys c:

December 25, 2015, 5:27 pm by Lovelie
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Awww I already did all my quests today :( Thanks for all the the hard work getting the site back up!

December 25, 2015, 5:27 pm by omiai
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amazing of you to sort this out so quick! thank you! when can we claim the gifts under our trees by the way? or can we do it already, and if so, where? XD

December 25, 2015, 5:27 pm by MarchOnOff
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Guys, thank you so much, I can feel the disappointment in your post, come on, it can happen, we're cool...thanks for the awesome gift! Happy Lumi and Happy Holidays guys ❤

December 25, 2015, 5:26 pm by Gholgolaz
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thank you guys for the medal!!

December 25, 2015, 5:26 pm by Kevin
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No stocking events for me as far as I see, in the clear :D

December 25, 2015, 5:25 pm by Jana
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The Script who Stole Luminaire

December 25, 2015, 5:25 pm by Straywillow
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Happy Holidays Subeta, thanks for working so hard today!

December 25, 2015, 5:25 pm by Elsa
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Thank you for all the hard work! I really appreciate it, especially on Lumi. <3

December 25, 2015, 5:25 pm by Amber
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it wasn't a server issue. :)

December 25, 2015, 5:25 pm by Helly
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thank you so much for working so hard to fix this on christmas day, you guys are the best TuT

December 25, 2015, 5:25 pm by Jana
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The Servers who Stole Luminaire

December 25, 2015, 5:24 pm by Meso
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yay welcome back !!!

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