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Do you mean the email spam one? It's not discarded. It's on page 2.

It has the discard bin on it with no comments, just a bit confused

I agree...the original Sift Talk had 36 comments (as the Sift Talk list section shows) - but now has no contents at all and a discarded icon.

does this have something to do with the new naming system for links?

anyway, on a related note, this vid is up and running with lots of votes and comments, but when i open it it's labeled 'discarded' & has no comments:

http://swampgirl.videosift.com/video/John-Coltrane-My-Favourite-Things

there are others too.

It's still alive and kicking here:
http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=24581

It's okay now. Benjee has found it and linked it to the sift talk post.

The original content of the Sift Talk has been restored.

glad that's cleared up..... bloody spooky going ons in the sift today.

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Lucky is still working the kinks out of the new URL system. This should be fixed momentarily. (would hate to lose that stellar thread )

This has all been corrected. The not-so-technical explanation is that there were discarded videos with the identical titles and those were the ones being displayed.

Should be running smoothly now.

I'm confused as to what Sift had an identical title (as google finds none) - but I'm glad it's back...and much prefer the old numerical reference system (unique identifiers always better IMO).

"anyway, on a related note, this vid is up and running with lots of votes and comments, but when i open it it's labeled 'discarded' & has no comments:

http://swampgirl.videosift.com/video/John-Coltrane-My-Favourite-Things"

Pigeon, I think I know why. When I originally posted it, I sort of screwed up and backed spaced to fix something instead of editing. It resulted in a discard before I finally got the post up in the queue.

I don't know why it would still be associated with the live post though...

I think a little more information should be provided about why this happened as many could misconstrue this as self censorship on the behalf of the Sift Overlords.

Because it seems odd that only that post got affected and not others.

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Not only Anliz's post was effected. Any post that had a duplicate title was - as SwampGirl noted above. Duplicate titles would most often happen from someone doing a draft, discarding and making a new one with the same title.

Because the new URL system uses the title to make the url, it looks for the first post with the matching title, in most cases it would find the discarded one first, as it has a lower post number. I hope this clears it up.

Edit: Can we refer to this as "AnlizGate"? I love a good conspiracy.

Disarm me with a smile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQtLoJlQD6E

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Thanks Nicky. I'm playing this while sifting spelt flour for pancakes. Nice music for a lazy Saturday.

What happens if the title is edited.. do any incoming links with the old titles go 404?

Good question, winkler. We've designed it so the friendly URL will not change so links will not break. So, if a person were to title a video "title fu bar" the url will be "/video/title-fu-bar" and if they change it to "title foobar" that won't change. If someone else comes along and titles their video "title foobar" it will not collide with the first video as its new url will be "/video/title-foobar".

I cause trouble even when I dont do anything =)