For those who don't read lj_maintenance entry edits

[winter]

*facepalms* So, from the horse's mouth. Remember that Snowflake Cookie free v-gift that everyone was sending around?

It's what broke notifications, because there's a default setting of ON for "get notified when one of your friends receives a virtual gift". The Snowflake got made available free to everyone by a glitch (*cough* there's a reason I was sending them around last year at St Nick's) and suddenly everyone and their dog was sending it to people. Which generated notifications to the f-lists of people who got them. Lots of notifications. The sending system hid under the bed and refused to come out.

Notifs are getting processed now, but they're also still building up. At the height of it, the number reached 12 million ~_~ Ops are on it and have managed to kickstart the sending, but it might take a while for all of them to clear up.

So Now You Know.

Comments

[wottie.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, thanks for the headsup! Yeah I just got about thirty thousand emails, so I'm glad it seems that notifications are picking up again. ♥

[alice_montrose]

Bwhahahahaha! I knew it! The snowflakes broke LJ! *very much amused*

What's funny is that I was getting v-gifts notifications, but not comment notifications. ^^;;;;

[trobadora]

Thanks for the pointer! I really wish they'd make new posts instead of editing old ones. *sighs*

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh thank you! I was wondering, I just thought it was one of those LJ things >>;

[happy-riceball.livejournal.com]

=____= ;;I wondered why I got so many notifications of other people receiving gifts.

Thank you for letting me know of the chaos.