Good news, everyone!
Current assignment status
Thanks to a lot of work, mainly from AO3 staff, your assignments have been restored. You may notice some anomalies.
You should now be able to post or default as if the purge had not happened.
How this happened
When assigning a pinch hit, I misclicked on the Purge All Assignments button.
AO3 Support, ADT, and Systems staff, especially james, CJ, and astolat, worked hard to retrieve the assignments for us from a back-up and set them up. We then tweaked them in according to our own records of pinch hits and defaults.
Thank you from me to Jenn_Calaelen and hhertzof, and thank you from all of us to those who have helped to fix this problem, and to those who have posted comments in support of the mod team’s and AO3 staff’s ongoing work.
Here’s hoping that further Yuletide 2016 excitement is only of the “yay, I got a fantastic gift” kind. Also the “omg, is that a deadline?” kind, but preferably before the deadline occurs...
The default deadline (deadline for defaulting on your assignment with no, or only minor, penalties) is still 9am UTC, December 11 - that’s in just two days, so please take note of it if you are thinking of defaulting.
In the Yuletide IRC chat, we have the following outstanding beta requests: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV), 27k; Trails of Cold Steel, 13k; Dangan Ronpa 3, 10k. Please either sign in and talk to a hippo, or email the mods, if you can help look over any of these!
The beta readers post also has some outstanding beta requests posted in the comments: Silicon Valley, Tomb Raider, Matthew Swift, and Akatsuki no Yona.
Thanks to a lot of work, mainly from AO3 staff, your assignments have been restored. You may notice some anomalies.
- Please check that your assignment is the same as it was before. If it is not, please email the mods immediately, and when you do, please see if you can forward your initial assignment email to help us fix this as soon as possible.
- In particular, defaults and pinch hits were fixed manually, so if one of your claimed pinch hits is missing, or if you still have an assignment that you had defaulted on, please email yuletideadmin@gmail.com right away.
- If you had already posted your assignment, it may not show as Fulfilled. It’s in the collection - you don’t need to re-post the whole fic. We do ask you to edit your story (look for it in Works then Works in Collections, or on your Stats page). In the editing mode, tick the box that says it fulfils your challenge assignment, then save. Please contact the mods if you are not sure how to do this. Please check it over after saving and check that it shows as Fulfilled on your assignment page after you have done this.
You should now be able to post or default as if the purge had not happened.
How this happened
When assigning a pinch hit, I misclicked on the Purge All Assignments button.
AO3 Support, ADT, and Systems staff, especially james, CJ, and astolat, worked hard to retrieve the assignments for us from a back-up and set them up. We then tweaked them in according to our own records of pinch hits and defaults.
Thank you from me to Jenn_Calaelen and hhertzof, and thank you from all of us to those who have helped to fix this problem, and to those who have posted comments in support of the mod team’s and AO3 staff’s ongoing work.
Here’s hoping that further Yuletide 2016 excitement is only of the “yay, I got a fantastic gift” kind. Also the “omg, is that a deadline?” kind, but preferably before the deadline occurs...
The default deadline (deadline for defaulting on your assignment with no, or only minor, penalties) is still 9am UTC, December 11 - that’s in just two days, so please take note of it if you are thinking of defaulting.
In the Yuletide IRC chat, we have the following outstanding beta requests: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV), 27k; Trails of Cold Steel, 13k; Dangan Ronpa 3, 10k. Please either sign in and talk to a hippo, or email the mods, if you can help look over any of these!
The beta readers post also has some outstanding beta requests posted in the comments: Silicon Valley, Tomb Raider, Matthew Swift, and Akatsuki no Yona.