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rene

8:06 PM

Bug report: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/378468/…

Thanks for your feedback.

Mithrandir

@rene error, Channels

rene

Martijn confirmed that it is a bug for moderators as well

EKons

8:26 PM

@rene oops, I'm in a couple of Teams :P

rene

It is a strange bug. I can't imagine why the accountid being null affects SOfT users.

Shog9

Essentially, there's a bit of logic that tries to determine which channels the account is part of...

...AccountId being a nullable type...

TheOneWhoMade

Well, maybe there are some outdated logics in place. or that ^

Shog9

...and it doesn't check to see if AccountId is null

AccountId being NULL is not normal, BTW - even unregistered users are supposed to have a stub account. But, it can happen... And the page isn't supposed to blow up when it does. Nick is fixing.

rene

Yeah, I do know accountid should not be null. Most of those seem registrations that went south before completion or so.

Shog9

8:35 PM

(Irony: for devs, there's a tool to fix some causes of this issue... Which is linked to automatically from the profile page when it occurs. Of course, if the profile page won't load...)

rene

Only 251 of such cases on SO ...

@Shog9 you could unsubscribe yourself from all teams ...

Shog9

Probably very old profiles in most cases?

Like... Prior to 2011?

rene

No, also from last year

Shog9

huh

well, extra good it's getting fixed then

rene

here is the list: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/957799

most have that default user guid

TheOneWhoMade

8:37 PM

That's a lot of duplicate display names

Shog9

oh wow, there's someone who was just on the site a couple weeks ago

rene

I recall someone shared the code once where that guid was set

It is used as a marker or so while the account is being created

I guess it didn't handle success correctly ...

Shog9

yep, looks like merge went awry

well... Once the profile doesn't crash, at least some of these can be fixed.

rene

Is that fixed by creating the account and then update the accountid? Or are there accounts without users as well?

So you have to find the account that should belong to the user?

Shog9

9:02 PM

@rene depends. There might not even be an account. See my answer

In the case of the most recent user in your list (E V), there is an account, and two users - one attached to the account (but with no name) and the other attached to nothing (but with a name)

so I can just merge those and it's good

maybe

done

of course, I lost the name in the process :-P

Ha!

patched up

Oof

Thanks, also to Nick for the quick fix

Shog9

may never matter, but if that user logs in now everything should be copacetic

I'll pass it along

Unfortunately, poor Vivian has no credentials that match any other accounts

That user is probably unsalvageable

rene

9:12 PM

They can't login you mean into that SO user account?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

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Q: Announcing Our Amazing 2018 Stuff-A-Way!

Did you receive any gifts that you'd appreciate a lot more if they were actually something that you could use, or even wanted? Do you still have some from the last few years? Don't feel bad, we've got you. Curious? Read on. If you're reading this, there's a good chance that you've got, well, stu...

I wonder if the downvote is for the lack of research

TheOneWhoMade

facepalm That would make my day, and possibly my year, if that was the case.

rene

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ not useful ....

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I did help charities often, if I manage to get cleared for going out actually

@rene Must be a dupe of handling a null exception

But I dunno, I'm not the kind of person to write about it anywhere. Except on the Tavern

rene

It is tagged discussion so if you find a good duplicate candidate I might dupe-hammer it ;)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

9:16 PM

Maybe I should. You never know if you're estimating something correctly unless you write it down

@rene We have a dupe finder guy on Chem that I swear would find an older duplicate for postID = 1

rene

lol

You can't beat gnat for sure ...

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Like "haha I'm an awesome person and I definitely donated 100 bucks this months, except maybe I did and maybe I didn't"

@rene Bah, not everything is a dupe of programmers.SE history meta post

Maybe

It requires hard evidence

Funny thing is we tend to donate money only and throw away stuff

I think it's an Iranian thing, maybe?

Some aspects of me gotta be normal. Ish

Tinkeringbell

Clothes go in clothes collection bin, stuff that's not broken goes on a 'giveawaycorner' on Facebook. Yarn goes to a local salvation army where they use it for meet ups for lonely people

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

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A: Announcing Our Amazing 2018 Stuff-A-Way!

Christmas this year was the year of the new laptops - my parents', my sister's, and my laptop were all something like 7 years old, so we replaced the lot. Over the past week or so, I've erased each one and refreshed Windows so they work reasonably smoothly again, and gave them to a friend of our...

FFS, should send them to Iran

ArtOfCode

porque?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

9:22 PM

We are so laptopless in education

ArtOfCode

it's not a give-every-kid-a-laptop thing, it's more like try to get at least one laptop in each whole school

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

90% of the schools have 1 old TV-set type computer that runs on Windows 95 and 10% have more than 1 old TV-set type computer that runs on Windows 95

Scratch that, most of them don't even have that computer

Opening Office 2007 files is usually an Adventure Time episode in itself

Did all of the answerers receive some swag at some point, I wonder

I also wonder if maybe I should go crusader style and only upvote newish posts so the competition is fair

Or does everyone receive a swag? <Oprah Winfrey meme>

Mithrandir

This coincidences well with my planning on taking some cash over to my local charity that gives food to people such as Holocaust survivors here in town who need help. I've been saving up to give them something.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Gandalf is expected to do no less.

Should also entertain them with fireworks

Nonhazardous ones

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/321396/… — Ouch, people going full meta.SO on this one

Mithrandir

Less dangerous to just drop off a few hundred shekels...

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

9:35 PM

It's been some time since the last -10 living post that wasn't a rant or blatantly OT

@Mithrandir with explosive FUN surprises inside

What's a shekel gotta do in times of a zombie apocalypse?

TheOneWhoMade

Hey, Mithrandir.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Yanno, it inspired me too. I've got an appointment on Saturday, and it's been more than 60 days so my nephro doc will probably clear me for going outside and breathing some fresh pollution instead of stale air. I'd donate some to the closest charity box I find

Hey, Mithrandir.

Meaning a considerable amount of money, not just a couple of extra bucks

Tinkeringbell

9:52 PM

meta.stackexchange.com/a/321420/369802 Story :)

Alex

10:03 PM

@Tinkeringbell Not an outgoing person?

TheOneWhoMade

Hey, Tinkeringbell

Tinkeringbell

@Alex I was really, really, really shy at 18.

Alex

Well I guess things have changed since then.

Tinkeringbell

They have. :)

A bit. I still dislike phone calls, but working retail and just doing random stuff helped al ot :)

@TheOneWhoMade Hi!

Mithrandir

I'm really really really not an outgoing person.

Tinkeringbell

10:05 PM

I think that time when I went there, to become a volunteer... that sort of was the first time I 'just did stuff'.

Despite being nervous about it.

Mithrandir

@Tinkeringbell Good for you :P

Tinkeringbell

@Mithrandir That was... almost 9 years ago... Darn, time flies.

Mithrandir

I was... 7!

Shadow Wizard

@Tink the giveaway contest says only one answer per user this time.

Tinkeringbell

@Mithrandir Actually, I kinda had to at that time... Living on my own finally forced me to grow up :P

@ShadowWizard Yes, so? I only have 1 :P

Shadow Wizard

10:07 PM

Also, can we win by sharing past donations we made? Makes more sense if we need to make new donation. No?

Mithrandir

I went to visit a couple of Holocaust survivors earlier today for one of their birthdays (something I do often with other kids my age). I... think I kept my word count under 20...

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell two. Unless you deleted one? Reloading

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard I edited the top one ;)

Not posted it. I seriously hope donating that 'w' doesn't count!

@ShadowWizard People asked, but no replies yet so... If there's a comment saying that, I can always delete my answer ;)

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell oh... Dang still not used to responsive design on mobile, lol

The editor appear above asker

I have an amazing story from.... 15 years ago

Is it eligible? @TimPost

@Mithrandir that is great and totally fitting. Do share as answer there if you didn't already... :)

Mithrandir

I should, yeah.

Journeyman Geek

10:19 PM

@Tinkeringbell @ShadowWizard heh. funny thing is I don't remember half the time I did stuff like that ._.

Tinkeringbell

Oh, some of these are getting routine. I can't remember the dates :P

Journeyman Geek

yup

Tinkeringbell

But I grew up putting good but too small/big clothes in the clothes collection bin of the salvation army, there's this yearly thing in the supermarket where you get a grocery list when you enter and you buy a few items and they go to poor countries, and we've never thrown away anything that was still good, we either gave it away to others or re-sold it second hand ourselves.

Now, the crochet toys and yarn donations are such a routine thing too... Sometimes with a few new balls added as well ;)

Mithrandir

10:36 PM

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A: Announcing Our Amazing 2018 Stuff-A-Way!

I'm part of a team, made up of teenagers aged 15-17, who volunteer to be a part of this team, and then we go and do... stuff. What we do various, but there's one thing that we do regularly. Here in our town, there are a lot of old Holocaust survivors who don't have a lot of family or anyone aro...

*varies not various

Alex

Apparently all the chattiest people here think that they're recluses in real life...

Mithrandir

I don't think, I know...

Tinkeringbell

@Alex I no longer am (okay, still a bit. I only do social stuff when I feel like it and I value my downtime a lot, still) :P

Alex

It's just interesting how real world personalities and internet personalities don't necessarily match up.

Tinkeringbell

Brad Paisley - Online

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Alex

10:47 PM

@Tinkeringbell Nice.

Mithrandir

I mean, some of it is probably that I'm self-conscious about tripping up on my accent, and I don't speak especially clearly even in English. So... that probably contributes to me keeping my mouth shut a lot of the time.