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Bam

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Re: Is the software on this forum stuffed?
Reply #15 - Sep 21^st, 2014 at 11:19am

The questions that need to be answered:
* How does the forum count the number of posts in a topic?
* Does it do so consistently? (Answer is likely to be NO)

The forum was (and probably still is) using two different methods to count the number of posts in a topic and under some circumstances these methods return different results.

Method 1 (produces short counts)
* Calculation of Pagination
* "Replies" column

Method 2 (reliable)
* "Reply No" at the top of each post

There may be other places not listed.

If the "Reply No" code was copied to the other places (preferably by coding as a common function), the problem should be fixed.

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Bobby.

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Re: Is the software on this forum stuffed?
Reply #16 - Sep 21^st, 2014 at 11:30am

Bam wrote on Sep 21^st, 2014 at 11:19am:

The questions that need to be answered:
* How does the forum count the number of posts in a topic?
* Does it do so consistently? (Answer is likely to be NO)

The forum was (and probably still is) using two different methods to count the number of posts in a topic and under some circumstances these methods return different results.

Method 1 (produces short counts)
* Calculation of Pagination
* "Replies" column

Method 2 (reliable)
* "Reply No" at the top of each post

There may be other places not listed.

If the "Reply No" code was copied to the other places (preferably by coding as a common function), the problem should be fixed.

You'd have to be the person or team that wrote the code in order to fix it.

It also has something to do with the server being overloaded with too many posts at once.

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Re: Is the software on this forum stuffed?
Reply #17 - Sep 21^st, 2014 at 12:50pm

freediver wrote on Sep 21^st, 2014 at 6:43am:

Redmond Neck wrote on Sep 20^th, 2014 at 12:07pm:

Interesting bit of useless information I have just discovered.

If you log off the forum, you can then click on and see the last post!

I cannot reproduce this. Can you give me more details?

If it gets too annoying, start a new thread. You can ask a mod to lock the old thread. Post links back and forth so people get it.

Not behaving the same today FD

I have put a post in the Ragheads topic and it shows me as the latest poster.12:29pm today

If I click on Latest post arrow it doesnt show my post it shows Longweekends 10:51pm yesterday post

If I log off and then click on the lastest post supposedly by me it shows a later post by TrueBlue yesterday 11:46pm

Yesterday when I logged off it would show my latest post

Weird Eh?

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49407 At my desk.	Re: Is the software on this forum stuffed? Reply #18 - Sep 21^st, 2014 at 8:16pm My unopened PM count got updated last night. Anyone can fix the YaBB code. It is open source.
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Panther Gold Member Offline My Heart beats True for the Red White & Blue... Posts: 11597 Gender:	Re: Is the software on this forum stuffed? Reply #19 - Sep 25^th, 2014 at 4:50pm Ouch... Me head is startin' ta hert!
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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 106751 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Is the software on this forum stuffed? Reply #20 - Dec 16^th, 2014 at 4:26am 8 posts to flip the page: http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1418600402/405#412
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49407 At my desk.	Re: Is the software on this forum stuffed? Reply #21 - Dec 17^th, 2014 at 7:41pm My unopened PM count is fixed again. Just start a new thread. Let us know here so one of the mods can close the old one. Post links back and forth on both threads.
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