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EA has certainly been making my life busy recently!
They have been doing some kind of housekeeping (or something else) with their AFDC entries. They will delete around 80-100 each day, only to add them back in the next day.
Normally when a site is removed from AFDC, it's either because the site has been removed (this is the obvious reason) or it's closed/unavailable (there is a way to mark sites as temporarily closed in AFDC--I don't know why providers feel the need to delete their entry altogether). Anyway, my nightly scans pick up on this and remove the AFDC tag from my database, leaving an "orphaned" site. I normally check on these sites to see if I can find evidence that they have been permanently or just temporarily closed (and in some cases, they actually remain open--this happens a lot with ChargePoint stations where the site host has terminated their relationship with ChargePoint, but the station still remains operational--at least until something breaks on it!) This does take time to research (many times I have to hop into the network's app because they don't offer a convenient & reliable web solution).
One outcome of this is that I wind up with a huge number of sites in my backlog to check in on, which because of the transient nature of the EA sites I'm not going to check in on until this EA activity ceases. This means that there may be some sites which have closed that I will not be marking as such for the time being. I doubt this is a huge deal because these tend to mostly be old Harley dealerships and such as opposed to more active and useful sites, but I wanted to give you all a heads up on that.
They have been doing some kind of housekeeping (or something else) with their AFDC entries. They will delete around 80-100 each day, only to add them back in the next day.
Normally when a site is removed from AFDC, it's either because the site has been removed (this is the obvious reason) or it's closed/unavailable (there is a way to mark sites as temporarily closed in AFDC--I don't know why providers feel the need to delete their entry altogether). Anyway, my nightly scans pick up on this and remove the AFDC tag from my database, leaving an "orphaned" site. I normally check on these sites to see if I can find evidence that they have been permanently or just temporarily closed (and in some cases, they actually remain open--this happens a lot with ChargePoint stations where the site host has terminated their relationship with ChargePoint, but the station still remains operational--at least until something breaks on it!) This does take time to research (many times I have to hop into the network's app because they don't offer a convenient & reliable web solution).
One outcome of this is that I wind up with a huge number of sites in my backlog to check in on, which because of the transient nature of the EA sites I'm not going to check in on until this EA activity ceases. This means that there may be some sites which have closed that I will not be marking as such for the time being. I doubt this is a huge deal because these tend to mostly be old Harley dealerships and such as opposed to more active and useful sites, but I wanted to give you all a heads up on that.
