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I've gotta problem.

I just created very time-consuming blog entry about Frank J. Marshall and published it. After publishng it, I checked the http://www.chess.com/blog/ page to make sure it appeared there - afterall, what good is writing something that no one can have the opportunity to decide whether or not to view. And, it did appear there. However, I went about my business and came back to that page about 15 minutes later - and it was gone! (ctrl+R, no effect)

It's still listed on the right column under recent blog entries, but not in the main section and not as a featured blog.

What gives?

Never-mind. Now it's back.

Something flaky is afoot.

There is goes again!

removed from the main area and the featured spot are referrals to my blog entry on Frank Marshall and chessiq's entry on Alekhine's Cannon.

ummm... for some reason, this is annoying me. I go to the blog page http://www.chess.com/blog/ and see the same pork chop and the same girl advertising for guys, but no Marshall and no Alekhine???

Any hot guys out there?

go to http://www.chess.com/blog/

(warning: no chess content allowed)

As a test, I posted a new entry, and, voila!  now all the missing entries have shown up....

what's going on?

This is like Batgirl channel. All Batgirl, all day all night!

I see the same thing. I read the blog, but only because I (like everyone else I presume) have Batgirl tracked.

Digital stalker.

But yes, something sinister is definitely afoot here.

 "batgirl: is this still happening?"

It hasn't happened again since my last posting to that effect.

"Batgirl, is it possible you were logged out some of the times you were viewing this page?"

nope. Particularly evident, since on the last occasion I had viewed the page (missing entries), immediately made a new [test] blog entry using stuff I had come across earlier, immediately re-checked the page (no longer missing entries).

Most of the night last night i would look at both the first page that comes up www.chess.com, and the recent blogging page.

On both of these pages I would (sporadically) get an outdated page, Ctrl F5 would not update. But if I closed the browser and hit these pages in a new session, I would often get the updated page.

I work the night shift, so this was happening through about 5 a.m. MST.

so, what would cause a page to update - then revert - then update - then revert -then update?

 in layman's terms, when you have a page that is being viewed many many times per second you can't have that page recompiled from the php code and database each time - you need to have a copy on hand. kind of like having mcdonald's food under a heatlamp, except that we're talking seconds, not minutes, and slightly stale webpages aren't gross :)

It certainly didn't bother me, just saw Batgirl's thread and noticed it myself.

No problems with the actual chess pages, so I was good to go!

Though I will say, the webpages I was seeing were hours old, not minutes. Like Batgirl said, the porkchop post and then the girl looking for hot guys kept coming up showing no comments, this was hours after I posted there myself (how embarrassing).

Not sure if this would be indicative of a bigger problem or not... I'd get a job at McDonald's before I got a job building websites!

Thanks for the explanations.