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heavensqueen ([personal profile] heavensqueen) wrote in [community profile] yuletide_coal2014-10-18 02:28 am

The Dirty Energy Source

Do you want to make a spreadsheet about spreadsheets?
Do you still need to figure out what two other fandoms you should request beside the only one you really want fic for?
Or are you trolling ALL the letter posts for placeholders, just so you can write those people some nice, dry coal?

We want to know all about it.

Re: Are they requesting it or not....

(Anonymous) 2014-10-20 10:00 am (UTC)(link)
From the coalie above you it sounds like the system is eating things. If I were you I wouldn't worry, though - plan to treat them, because in the worst case scenario you'll still have written a fic.

Re: Are they requesting it or not....

(Anonymous) 2014-10-20 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
I'm the coalie above, I don't think the system is eating anything. If the fandom is requested at the time the summary was generated, it's going to appear on it.
The summary is just taking longer and longer to generate and the task that creates it, stopped entirely at least once last year, but the summary always gave an accurate summary of the last generated state.

Re: Are they requesting it or not....

(Anonymous) 2014-10-20 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
At least once last year they deleted the most recent summary and replaced it with an earlier version until it could generate again, so that could have happened too.