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<snark superfluous>Good to see old traditions again,</snark> since just like last year, Winter Bash is borked for me:

Oops! Something Bad Happened!

I cannot login on the https://winterbash2019.stackexchange.com site as I get aforementioned error, and while trying to wear hats, I get a nondescript "An error occurred while changing the hat" message (which I'm sure is entirely unrelated ;-P).

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  • Can you log in to stackexchange.com? (Just a hunch that it may be related, if you can't.)
    – Shadow The GPT Wizard
    Dec 10, 2019 at 8:52
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    I am logged in on stackexchange.com.
    – deceze
    Dec 10, 2019 at 8:55
  • I don't really feel like logging out of everything, but I've logged in on another browser to stackexchange.com and then tried to sign into the WB2019 page → same error.
    – deceze
    Dec 10, 2019 at 8:57
  • Any software on your system that prevents certain types of connections or software?
    – Luuklag
    Dec 10, 2019 at 9:17
  • @Luuklag No. I even explicitly tried disabling content blockers.
    – deceze
    Dec 10, 2019 at 9:18
  • @Eran That shouldn't influence anything, and I'd like to keep my history thankyouverymuch, and if that is the cause of any problem then SE should fix it, since they can't expect everyone to clear their history.
    – deceze
    Dec 10, 2019 at 9:19
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    I suppose the hats just don't fit onto the headphones ... :)
    – Jonas Wilms
    Dec 10, 2019 at 11:55
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    @Jonas That actually is an issue, I'd like to ask for more inclusive headgear next year!
    – deceze
    Dec 10, 2019 at 12:04
  • An "unexpected error"? That was...unexpected.
    – Robert Columbia
    Dec 10, 2019 at 13:45
  • So, anyone else suddenly wishing for a Swedish Chef hat? (Bork!Bork!Bork!)
    – Meg
    Dec 10, 2019 at 21:44

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Something hokey happened the first time that you tried to do something with a hat. I cleared out your data and it repopulated with the scheduled task. Can you please try to log in again?

Update: weird data situation fixed, all is working now

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    Any chance for gory details? ;-)
    – Shadow The GPT Wizard
    Dec 10, 2019 at 13:36
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    Combination of user-inits on specific sites for this account in the past that went awry (leaving multiple phantom user records on those sites), those not getting cleaned up, and the network api call being used to retrieve them not filtering them out. And the WB code expecting (rightly) to get one row per account/site.
    – Yaakov Ellis StaffMod
    Dec 10, 2019 at 13:39
  • Sounds like my code!! lol... good thing you caught it so fast. So, you added some sanity checks to the code?
    – Shadow The GPT Wizard
    Dec 10, 2019 at 13:42
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    May I feel special in that I was the only one with such data? Or are you currently crawling around the air vents to clean up loads of messed up data?
    – deceze
    Dec 10, 2019 at 13:50

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