I just noticed that all nodes in the "Daily Best" nodelet contains stale nodes, some of them almost 3 days old. For example, top of the list is Changing times, a post of nearly 72 hours ago. In fact, I think all of the nodes in the charts, are near or over 2 days old.

My guess is that somebody, while working on improving the Perlmonks engine, actually broke this nodelet's caching mechanism, so that it no longer gets refreshed. Maybe it's just the general caching for all nodelets.

The suspect is presently not available, and castaway, his partner in life, can't find anything remarkable in the recent edits logs.

Maybe somebody could look into it?

Update By sorting the 10 nodes in the list, I found that the oldest node dates from Jan 14, 2004 at 21:36 CET and the newest node from Jan 15, 2004 at 17:17 CET. Therefore, if one particular change is responsible for the change in behaviour, it must have been installed on Jan 15, between 17:17 and 21:36 CET — and with a more likelihood closer towards the end of that range, because a freshly written node can't have gathered enough votes already to make it into the list.

Update On Jan 24, 9:37 GMT, tye made this very brief announcement on the chatterbox:

2004-01-24 04:37:07-05

now nodelets unstuck