Bug in the forum?

Imar · #1 (**permalink**) June 21st, 2003, 10:40 AM

Hello everyone,

Since today, it seems that the forum no longer hooks up the messages to my user name in certain locations of the forum.

It does show my user name in newly posted messages, but my "Last Post" and post count on the members list is no longer updated. It also looks like some posts are missing in the "Find all non-archived posts by UserName" feature.

Does it take some time to update this data, or is this a bug??

AFAIK, the only thing I changed is that I included my Profile Signature by default......

Cheers,

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

Hal Levy · #2 (**permalink**) June 21st, 2003, 08:45 PM

Imar, I have not noticed the same thing- I'll have to try it out and see if I can reproduce it.

Of course I think the guys are out till monday so they can't look at it until then.

Hal Levy
NOT a Wiley/Wrox Employee- Got a job for me?

JSample · #3 (**permalink**) June 22nd, 2003, 05:51 AM

Imar:

I ran into a similar problem where it seemed the site had me stuck at 46 posts for a day, but I thought it was just me. I will look into this first thing on Monday and let you know what I find.

Thanks,

James Sample
Director, IT-Infrastructure
Wiley Publishing, Inc.

Imar · #4 (**permalink**) June 22nd, 2003, 06:15 AM

OK, great. Let me know if you need more info or want me to test things.....

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

Hal Levy · #5 (**permalink**) June 23rd, 2003, 07:53 PM

My posts are now stuck at 98.

Hal Levy
NOT a Wiley/Wrox Employee- Got a job for me?

Hal Levy · #6 (**permalink**) June 23rd, 2003, 07:54 PM

Ok- here's a weird thing- I increment here in this forum- but not in others I post in...
I am a moderator here and I am not on the other forum- I wonder if somehow the incrementing code got trapped in the code to check for moderator rights?

Hal Levy
NOT a Wiley/Wrox Employee- Got a job for me?

Imar · #7 (**permalink**) June 24th, 2003, 01:15 AM

Yeah, it's really weird.

According to the members list, I posted my last message on the 20th, while you can see in Active Topics or in the individual forums, that I posted yesterday and today as well.

Any news on the bug hunt?

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

bluckcuck · #8 (**permalink**) June 25th, 2003, 04:02 PM

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.

Hal Levy · #9 (**permalink**) June 25th, 2003, 05:47 PM

Ugh... I post too much

Hal Levy
NOT a Wiley/Wrox Employee- Got a job for me?

Imar · #10 (**permalink**) June 25th, 2003, 08:59 PM

Hi Bruce.

Great. It looks good.

Thanks,

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.