Something odd is happening with the member stat blocks on the front page of the site.

If you are here and it appears as though nobody is visiting, that is not true. There is some unknown problem with the site updating the "who visited today" listing and with the "who is online" box. There doesn't seem to be any logic behind it. I'm still digging around for a possible cause, but that's being hampered by there being no actual error messages in any of the logs to track it with.

FWIW, I was here today.
Good luck figuring this one out. I did notice that the QSF Portal forum site is also having the same symptoms. Did you recently upgrade PHP versions or something?

I guess that's the only thing that could explain it but it's been awhile since a PHP update was done and we weren't seeing weirdness until just recently. Without errors or something to track it down with it's not going to be easy to find.

Well, on the positive side, it's clearly not a hack of some sort since it's impacting both sites, but it is also obviously something that seems to be impacting all the sites you're hosting which is what lead me to think it might be a side affect of the last PHP upgrade. Maybe Apache got upgraded more recently?

Apache has been, yes, but there'd be no way for that to impact behavior of the database itself. The thing that's bugging me most is that the dates on the fouled news post are all correct, yet my reply insists on showing first and with the exact same date as Kayle's post.

There's also no explainable reason for why the "users online" and "today's visitors" sections are simply broken.

Well ok, figured out the issue with the user tables. Not sure why it broke when it did, but the code that handles the active users data was expecting a session key which was no longer being checked, so it was simply not tracking anything. Oops. Should be all fixed now, other than the anomaly with the news post date.

Ah, so it was the session key thing.. chalk one up to fixing bugs per that site that was so helpful about security issues.. </sarcasm>
I'm really not sure what to say about the news post date issue, has it revealed itself anywhere else, even in another news forum thread, yet? Maybe it really is just a fluke?