changelog nightly has many interrupts in the last month or so

[oohdoch]

in getting in my inbox,

is this temporarily

or does that happen to many,

hey i cried 0 1 0 1 0 1 and so on

but i do not unsubscribed in any way

when checked there is a interruption i signed once more for the newsletter

this was before 14 days

and now i have a interrupt again

thx

[impressivewebs]

Same here, I haven't gotten an issue since Nov. 5. I re-subscribed but not sure if that will help.

[impressivewebs]

FWIW, the Nightly came back for me on the Nov. 10 then stopped again, came back on the 15th and 16th and has been silent ever since. It seems to be a universal bug because if you look at the archives, those weeks are all missing as well:

• November 5 issue is there
• November 6 issue is missing
• November 10 issue is there
• November 17 issue is missing

Pinging @jerodsanto who seems to maintain this repo, so maybe he can tell us if it's coming back soon.

[impressivewebs]

12 minutes after posting that last message I got the Dec. 2 issue. So now I don't know what to think! 🤷

[jerodsanto]

It looks like the rake generate command is choking on days when BigQuery doesn't return any results from one of our two queries. The intermittent failure is because sometimes the top_new query returns results and sometimes it doesn't.

Historically this has always had results, so I'm not sure what changed lately on GHArchive's side that would cause the change.

I need to adjust the program to gracefully handle this case and just leave that portion of the email empty, I guess.

[jerodsanto]

I modified the code to gracefully handle empty results and re-ran the generator for a couple of the days that were missing (October 9th and 10th). It's not just the "top_new" query that was empty that day... both of them were.

• 2025-10-09
• 2025-10-10

I don't know what's up with that, but I do know that it's outside of our control.

What should happen on days like these where we get zero repos from the archive? Not send an email? Send an empty email?

[impressivewebs]

Thanks for looking into that. I guess sending an empty email would be one choice, but it might be confusing. Is it possible to add a note in the email that says something like "no links available today" or something like that? I don't know if that makes any difference, but it might at least prevent people from thinking there's a bug that you can fix.