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Winter Bash 2020 has ended, but I discovered an old Stack Overflow tab from a few days earlier which still had the snowflake hats icon on top. To my surprise, when I clicked it, I still got my list of hats:

screen capture showing Winter Bash hats

I verified that the page was not stale, as I checked my reputation tab from the same page and got back today's data. Also, when I clicked the opt out of hats button, I got an error.

Can someone explain this observations? Is the endpoint for fetching hats metadata still up and running?

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    They should make a hat for clicking on the snowflake tab after Winter Bash has ended. Hat to be awarded at the start of Winter Bash 2021.
    – Tim Biegeleisen
    Commented Jan 5, 2021 at 12:25
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    @TimBiegeleisen two hats. First one "anticip" awarded at the time you clicked the snowflake and the second one called "pation" at the next Winter Bash.
    – VLAZ
    Commented Jan 5, 2021 at 13:54
  • I saw the same behaviour - that tab still had my hat on as well. Then I accidentally caused it to refresh... :(
    – Nick
    Commented Jan 5, 2021 at 22:40
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    How is this a bug? Was there some requirement somewhere that they retire the hat endpoint on a certain schedule? Or that the snowflake be retroactively removed from all browser-cached screens somehow? Frickin' snowflakes want their snowflakes on a schedule now... :)
    – Heretic Monkey
    Commented Jan 5, 2021 at 23:00
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    Why can't winterbash last forever? BOO HOOO :((((((
    – 10 Rep
    Commented Jan 5, 2021 at 23:06
  • Can you send us the link on the snowflake. Maybe even we can use it.
    – Shadowcoder
    Commented Jan 6, 2021 at 4:44
  • @Shadowcoder There is no "link." Just find an old tab, at least 3 days old, and then click on the snowflake icon. You might also be able to back navigate some number of times from your current tab to get it back.
    – Tim Biegeleisen
    Commented Jan 6, 2021 at 4:45
  • Caching? :D Its always caching....
    – Journeyman Geek
    Commented Jan 6, 2021 at 6:33

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The WB site is still up and running. All of the display logic of rendering the snowflake menu, hat switcher, adding hats to pics, as well as the jobs related to awarding hats are off.

If you want to keep your tab open for a few months and keep on reloading the snowflake menu, more power to you.

winter bash is done
not however API
some endpoints still work

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  • Thanks for this insightful answer, Jake +1.
    – Tim Biegeleisen
    Commented Jan 6, 2021 at 9:37
  • When will the Winter Bash site be taken down and replaced with a redirect to the SO Contests site page?
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Commented Jan 6, 2021 at 9:45
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    @sonic we normally take the old site down as first step in setting up the new site, sometime around October-ish
    – Yaakov Ellis
    Commented Jan 6, 2021 at 9:48
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    No doubt that tidbit of info, released to Sonic, will find its way in a FAQ edit.
    – Mari-Lou A Слава Україні
    Commented Jan 6, 2021 at 10:19
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    @Mari-LouA It's not exactly new information.
    – animuson StaffMod
    Commented Jan 6, 2021 at 18:59

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