El Patron's Lost Weapons Unveiled! - April 21, 2010

[Edward Edgemenace]

The "Current News" is a Disney-internal blog. The public-facing side of the blog is cached so that they have a buffer before stuff is released to the general public. The RSS-feed from the blog is what feeds the "current news" that appears on the left side of launcher1.exe, but that has an additional level of caching (always a step further behind for an additional buffer.) Apparently, the brand new staff at Disney isn't down with the system...the Apache "squid" servers show them the full listing on their intra-net (where they get to seed comments for blog entries, if they so choose) but they obviously don't think to check and see how it looks from the Internet.

Hint for Disney: when you post the "next" news item, the previous news item is finally pushed to the public servers.

This isn't the first time they've goofed by about a week. The "defeat a skeleton" contest thing was announced on the last day of the week-long event...presumably so the "winners" could be informed in advance, while nobody else knew about the contest until it was over. Was it coincidence that they broke the leaderboards around that same time?