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Author Topic: Why does the forum sometimes lie? Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-10-2011 08:09 PM                        I see on the outside page that a thread has a new post, like The Fake Movie Name thread, last posted in by Michael Brown: I click into the subforum and see that the thread has no new posts (sometimes it's not even on the page at all): Here the thread is on the page, but it has not been updated. It claims the most recent post was made by Jesse Skeen.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-10-2011 08:34 PM                        I've noticed this too. Like on some thread, I made a post but then later it said that Mike Frese was the last to post, so I assumed he'd answered my post, but then mine was still really the last one.  |  IP: Logged Mark Hajducki Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Edinburgh, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 07-10-2011 09:14 PM                     It is some issue with the thread list display not updating (the reply is there if you view the post). I have only noticed it recently (past few days).  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-11-2011 12:08 AM                        Also, it used to be that the NEW POSTS and NO NEW POSTS indicators were accurate. Lately I find that I will see a number of forums that have the NEW POSTS flag up. I will go into one of them, read the new posts, but when I come back out to the main page (clicking on the FORUMS tab), when that page opens up, every forum will then have NO NEW POSTS flags. Weird; to my knowledge, it didn't use to do that -- the forums with new posts still had the green NEW POSTS flag until they were opened. [ 07-18-2011, 02:15 PM: Message edited by: Adam Martin ]  |  IP: Logged David E. Nedrow Master Film Handler Posts: 368 From: Columbus, OH, USA Registered: Oct 2008 posted 07-11-2011 01:03 AM                        Frank, The forum has always marked everything read as soon as I read a single entry. I've just gotten used to immediately opening a new browser tab for each "community", and the from their open each article of interest in a new tab. Sub-optimal  |  IP: Logged Edward Havens Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 614 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 07-11-2011 01:50 AM                     Joe it.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 07-11-2011 03:02 AM                     Backend is probably farked. PHP forums are for losers anyway. Perl is like 35mm, it'll be around forever... Apparently.  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-11-2011 08:27 PM                        Probably nothing more than a glitch in the MATRIX or a tiny little INCEPTION while you were sleeping. These aren't the lies you're looking for. You can go about your business. Move along... Move along.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 07-17-2011 07:00 PM                     This appears to be a glitch related to threads marked for email alerts. If Daryl ever checks his email, it might get fixed.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-18-2011 04:24 AM                        That's weird. Is it per user? I do not have nor have I ever marked any threads for email alerts. Or maybe if someone else did, it screws it up for everyone? Damn you all!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-18-2011 12:27 PM                        I don't use the email alerts function either, yet the forum lies to me sometimes too. It just started doing this in the last week or two.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 07-18-2011 02:04 PM                     If anyone has marked the thread for alerts, it causes the problem.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 07-18-2011 02:16 PM                     In the case of this thread, it's Frank's fault. He marked the thread for email alerts. I have removed the flag from his post.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-18-2011 04:37 PM                        I bet Frank uses this feature a lot. Ban?  |  IP: Logged

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