Okay.

I've just finished a major overhaul to the Forum statistics routines. Basically I found a number of holes and lots of replicated code that would not reliably keep the statistics updated. The previous code was trying to do incremental updates to counts by adding 1 if you post; subtracting one if you delete your post; etc.

The problem with this is that once it gets out of sync, incremental updates will never get it back in sync.

The new routines recalculate the statistics when any changes are made to forums, topic or replies.

This should keep everything in sync and make the post counts, active topics, last post info, etc. up to date and always accurate.

The current statistics have been rebuild for all users, topics and forums and now accurately represent the site's activity.

Bruce Luckcuck
Director, Applications & Support Services
Wiley Publishing, Inc.