Karl Fogel@kfogel@kfogel.org
According to the web site, this is a "coding error".
More specifically:
Along the top of the site is a text (hence accessible) tiny banner notice saying:
The Constitution Annotated website is currently experiencing data issues. We are working to resolve this issue and regret the inconvenience.Then, within the main banner image below that, there is an inexplicably carousel'd notice that is inlaid as an image (hence not accessible) into the right side of the historical painting that is the usual banner image. The notice says -- actually, says 5 times, repeating itself verbatim each time, because as I said the whole thing is inexplicably in a carousel even though both it and its background painting are exactly the same each time around -- the following:
Thank you for your inquiry and your interest in the Library of Congress. Due to a coding error, some sections of Article 1 are missing on the Constitution Annotated website. We are aware of the issue and are working to correct it. We expect this to be resolved soon. If you wish, we can send you an email notification when the issue is resolved.I just typed that out by hand, because it couldn't be copied-and-pasted, because, like I said, that text is only in an image :-).
Note there is no explanation of how to sign up for this "email notification when the issue is resolved". Underneath the image-text is a link, where the link text is just the characters "
. >" and the link itself is just back to the home page that one is already on.As a coder, I'm very curious what the heck kind of coding error this could be -- one would normally expect either the whole copy of the Constitution to be broken or not -- but I don't know anything about how they've set up this web site. Probably there's some innocent explanation and if we talked to one of their programmers it would all make sense. They didn't handle the notice very well, though :-(.
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Ghostrunner@ghostrunner@hachyderm.io
@kfogel@kfogel.org @QasimRashid@mastodon.social because it is not a coding error. in my 20 years in fintech crisis response, i have never seen an error like this. This is intentional.
