Intermittent Series Availability

[IWroteThis]

Is anybody else having an issue with a series of theirs going back and forth between being available and throwing a 404 error?

I was just looking at my latest series, Power and Control, and it threw a 404. However, upon refreshing the page, it displayed. So, I started refreshing the page and it would seemingly randomly switch between those two states.

I submitted the issue through the Report a Problem link, but was curious if it was just my series or a bigger issue.

EDIT: I realized I have multiple series, so I checked them all. Half of them came up with 404 instead of the series on the first load, but all of them randomly switched between the two states when refreshing the page.

 

[TheLobster]

Yup, it’s a thing. Chuck it under “known bugs that probably won’t get fixed this decade,” along with dozens of others.

 

[IWroteThis]

Yup, it’s a thing. Chuck it under “known bugs that probably won’t get fixed this decade,” along with dozens of others.

Thanks! I've run into 404 errors on series links before, but I guess I never reloaded the page and had them reappear. Normally, I just gave up after getting the 404 and worked from the author's full story list.

 

[NotWise]

Yup, it’s a thing. Chuck it under “known bugs that probably won’t get fixed this decade,” along with dozens of others.

I must have missed that memo.

I don't write a lot of series, or use the series feature very much, but I just tested every one of mine and they all loaded and reloaded without errors.

 

[IWroteThis]

I must have missed that memo.

I don't write a lot of series, or use the series feature very much, but I just tested every one of mine and they all loaded and reloaded without errors.

I just checked yours and they all worked just fine, even through multiple reloads. So, I checked mine again, and they all worked just fine, even through multiple reloads.

Interesting…

Maybe it's related to server load. I'll test again this evening when there's more traffic.