Something up?

[knownunknown]

Was looking for a post on the phpbb forums that had a problem similar to this. This thread looks very similar and this was the response from the support team. https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... p=15217691

PhpBB will compute the page to show by a formula using the number of posts in the topic divided by the number of posts per page. If the retrieved posts does not match the total posts, then the page might be wrong. I have seen this happen, for instance, when a user has been removed and his posts have not, because that user's posts are not retrieved when the posts table is joined with the user table, so the post count is inconsistent.

Hope this can help.

[Guburnor]

Was looking for a post on the phpbb forums that had a problem similar to this. This thread looks very similar and this was the response from the support team. https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... p=15217691

PhpBB will compute the page to show by a formula using the number of posts in the topic divided by the number of posts per page. If the retrieved posts does not match the total posts, then the page might be wrong. I have seen this happen, for instance, when a user has been removed and his posts have not, because that user's posts are not retrieved when the posts table is joined with the user table, so the post count is inconsistent.

Hope this can help.

Thanks 166, if we had any money I'd offer you the troubleshooter job!

This might well be in the right ballpark, we do have deleted users, whose posts are still on the site, and some of those on both the glued and WTF threads, but this has happened in other threads before without that anomaly. Although that could be a separate issue related to twitter embed script. Also the query on the phpbb forum is about search, and this impact would sort of make sense in that context, not sure how it would affect thanks function though.

I'm tempted to test this theory in order to rule it out by simply creating a "Anyone still glued to this? MK II" and a "Wtf moment of the day" MK II threads, in which deleted users will not be participating.

Anybody have any objections to this idea? They're both popular threads and I know people can get weirdly attached to threads!

[Del.Monte]

I'd probably object on principle if I had even the vaguest idea about such things but I'm happy whatever you do as long as it doesn't involve the Canadians.

[Guburnor]

On further reflection, losing confidence in this theory, as there other examples of threads with deleted users' posts in them eg vaccine thread that are working with no problem.

[CelticRambler]

Am a great believer in creating parallel realities, so no objection from me to the duplication of any thread for testing purposes.

[nlgbbbblth]

Anyone notice the issue when thanking posts?

Once you click, the thread jumps back to previous page

[isha]

It's been happening for ages

[CelticRambler]

Yeah, it's a kind of a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't glitch. Still better than having to put up with Vanilla as a discussion board software.

[isha]

It's because when people join then leave it scrambles up the post count. And some threads are just irretrievably scrambled. It might be worth doing part two on some popular ones and enforcing a Hotel California policy going forward. You can check out any time you want but you can never leave.