Stef how did you manage to just save my comment from Kinja Oppo?

[Blondude]

I'm so confused

[pip bip]

screenshot?

[Urambo Tauro]

Probably had an old tab still open? I've done that, wondering if it would reach the recipient.

[pip bip]

go onto kinja, click on your avatar, then look at notifications

works for me

[SamV8]

doesn't work for me, my notifications list is empty

[Thomas Donohue]

Notifications are still popping up, but they are for Jalopnik comments (you know, when you made the mistake of commenting on the FP).

At least that's what I'm getting. Any old links are gone.

(just saw that yours appears to be an Oppo post....huh....)

[ItalianJobR53]

@Stef-Schrader what sorcery is this?

[EssExTee]

@blondude comments still exist, you cam see them in your notifications. They just taped a big DO NOT ENTER sign over the front page. Stef must have found a way around.

[Stef Schrader]

@blondude Ooh! I had some tabs open and I was curious. Clearly, all the comments are connected, and they didn't shut off our commenting abilities. I left someone else an actual typed reply from beyond Oppo's grave, too, but I don't know if it posted.

[e90m3]

@stef-schrader Maybe they did it like this because they plan on giving us until the end of the month to save everything and since they didn't know how to make it all read only, they did this. Go dark for a few days until they figure it out.

[Qaaaaa]

@e90m3 I had that thought, but I'm not holding my breath.

[e90m3]

@qaaaaa I'm not either, thought everything was nuked, but it's at least somewhat of a chance that it's not.

[WhoIsTheLeader]

@stef-schrader I did the same thing after realizing I still had a page loaded on my phone. It accepted it so I guess it did.

[WhoIsTheLeader]

@essextee Not anymore. Yesterday I was able to view old comments from the personal blogs and today I cannot. It's just the FP comments now.

[FTTOHG]

@e90m3 right now it is ALL still there. But you have to use a really clunky API to get at it. I don’t think it’s coming back in read-only mode but I’m guessing they aren’t planning a full delete just yet. I wrote a script to scrape out the text and first 10 comments from all posts that is slowly going now (I fed it all of 2016 and it’s like 75% complete after running all night and still going). The big issue Kinja has is that the main blog comments are totally intermixed with all the user blogs so they are going to need to do some serious testing on an offline server to make sure their delete script works without destroying Jalopnik in the process before they kill anything.

[monkeepuzzle]

@blondude ooo! look at me! I matter to stef! stef took special attention to save my reply!

[e90m3]

@fttohg Ah, maybe that's the reason. I would find it hilarious if they accidentally killed all of G/O in the process.

[MM54]

@fttohg said in Stef how did you manage to just save my comment from Kinja Oppo?:

...they are going to need to do some serious testing on an offline server to make sure their delete script works without destroying Jalopnik in the process before they kill anything.

It's Kinja, they'll either nuke the whole works and use it as an excuse to remove commenting from the main blogs or all the everything will stay around but hidden indefinitely.

[Stef Schrader]

@fttohg Yeesh. That's definitely the reason why I rushed to back up all my front-page stuff the previous time the herb wanted to rage-nuke user blogs. "They're going to break the whole damn website network just because Jim Spanfeller is a herb."

[AkioOhtori]

Hey I also just got a @Stef-Schrader ghost comment

[Stef Schrader]

jimisaherb.com, pass it on