'Discuss this story' forum links wrong

lifemagic

Hi,
I get the mse news feed to my reader, and ... read them. At the bottom of the stories, it says 'discuss this story', and I click this link, go to a forum and there's an ongoing discussion about the story (very interesting).

But quite a few times, that link just refreshes the news page itself, rather than goes to a dedicated forum page.

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi lifemagic

Which news stories have you seen this happen with?

lifemagic

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/insurance/2012/07/car-insurance-prices-on-the-rise-again

OK, I've looked through the recent news items, and at this point, it's just the one above. But previously, it was quite common.

Maybe it was an office temp!

lifemagic

OK, I received four new stories today. Three are OK, but again, the forum link on the following one just reloads the story rather than goes to the forum:

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/utilities/2012/07/broadband-speeds-up

Former_MSE_Dan

Hi folks,

I can offer a bit of explanation on this. There are two possible causes

1) the most likely one is that a story is 'embargoed' overnight -ie, we find out the details on one day, but can't publish until the following day. In these cases, between the time the article gets auto-published (usually midnight) and the time someone gets into the office to add a discussion link, the link will usually fail

2) Human error - sometimes we enter the link incorrectly in the article admin system

HTH

Dan

lifemagic

Oh, OK. As the links are fixed now. I only asked as I usually look at stories as soon as they 'come' to my reader.

I just need to hold my horses a tad.