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User profile failbooru - possible workaround

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I did some testing today (together with another user, misumaru tenchi) and we got rid of his profile failbooru by adding his first five favorites here. Five and not a picture less. I also tested it on a new account (hopefully my blatant sock puppetery this time will be forgiven ;) with the same results, see http://danbooru.donmai.us/user/show/363131
This result confirms my expierience with profile failboorus: you get them usually for all new users, but also for some older ones who doesn't use danbooru favorites.

Updated by Techeese

Sockpuppets are only a problem when you use them to circumvent bans and such or create a half-dozen and use them all actively. Finding fixes for site issues is totally a legitimate usage of sockpuppets.

Very interesting. I already had a large number of favorites by my profile was still timing out.

However, adding three (not 5) random favorites made my profile load properly. When I remove one, it fails again.

So there's still a bit of a mystery left to unravel here.

about an hour ago, i can't click Log's profile. does that mean he's not using favorites? about 30 minutes ago, i clicked again. his profile flashed to me very fast. i saw he has more than 5 favorites. i tried again but database timed out this time.

it seems working, though, yes there's still something causing the error. thanks for testing and sharing it with us.

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piespy said:
So there's still a bit of a mystery left to unravel here.

Yes, as a matter of fact the only time I got failbooru on my own profile was right after adding new favorite. I removed it, and failbooru was gone (phew). Then I readded the very same favourite and... everything was fine. This incident, aside from leaving big flashing WTF bulb in my head, has pointed me towards treating favorites as primary suspect of failboorus.
Anyway, I think we can assume procedure for dealing with user profile failboorus for now is
1. to make sure you have at least 5 favourites first
2. if it doesn't help try to mess around with your favorites, no holds barred here

Awesome. It works. Thanks. I notice: The profile page displays 5 favs. As long as all those that are displayed are new, it works, if they are older than a certain point in time it breaks. Removing the five newest favs from the list and readding them unbreaks the profile page for me too. Seems like it just hates displaying old favorites.

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thanks i can see my profile again too

cremefraiche said:
Awesome. It works. Thanks. I notice: The profile page displays 5 favs. As long as all those that are displayed are new, it works, if they are older than a certain point in time it breaks. Removing the five newest favs from the list and readding them unbreaks the profile page for me too. Seems like it just hates displaying old favorites.

I'll take note of this

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