At 2/11/22 11:35 AM, bifgis wrote:At 2/11/22 03:37 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:@bifgis
Have you tried it again? Are you still getting the same issues?
Any time that I retried on the same day it would not log. It worked fine today. I believe I recall this having happened at least once in the past as well within the past couple months.
Maybe I can shed some light on this dilemma:
NGLogs keeps track if you've logged your stats for any given day or not. If you access the site and use your Newgrounds ID to log in, if there is no data for you today, it will go out and auto-poll for you, and report it as such. Subsequent visits to NGLogs on the same day will NOT update your stats for the day, so if you do it in the morning, and then try again in the evening, it won't update, keeping the data from the first scan in the morning.
With that in mind, remember that you don't need a password to access the site, so if someone else logs in with your ID earlier in the day, they will trigger the first poll, and when you go in later (not knowing that someone beat you to it) you're surprised that it won't update.
And..... There is the monthly auto-poll that occurs on the last day of every month, usually during the day, that scans through ALL 5,700+ users in the database, and creates a daily / monthly poll snapshot for each user. So that means that all users will have stats for the day automatically - and again, if that runs in the afternoon, and you log in later, the stats are still from earlier.
From a user standpoint, if you weren't aware of all of this, it would appear that the auto-poll wasn't working once in a while.
Occasionally, the programmers at Newgrounds may change some underlying HTML or design aspect of the user pages which confuses the scanner program until I make the adjustments in the program to read the new layouts. This usually is seen as no poll data for the day, or all zeros / blanks. When this happens, I'm usually notified by many key users who let me know what's going on, and I get on it ASAP.
Hopefully, this will shed some light on the issue - and, of course, if you're having any constant issues with the site, please PM me right away and I'll look into it.