I’m seeing some weird behavior on the forums today. I have been aggressively pruning my unread topics so the number of unread threads is in the 60s. However, after a while when I refresh the count, it says I only have (2) unread. The after a bit it says (10). Or some other number. And after a while the count goes back to (65) or wherever it was before. And now it says I have no unread. This is over the course of 30 to 60 minutes, FYI.
This is all on my iPad, not switching between devices. Any idea what’s going on?
Yeah, I’ve had this in the last few weeks, but not today. I usually have a butt ton of unread topics. Sometimes I come in and it says I have none. I refresh like a madman, but it doesn’t change. I think: I’m going to have to write someone about this. But then the next time I come back, I’ve got a butt ton of unreads back.
I think it’s happened like two or three times. Enough that I don’t freak out and think about writing anyone anymore. They always come back.
@wumpus where am I seeing this? In the hamburger menu when I pull it down to get to latest/new/unread. I can show you what I’ve seen this morning but am not exactly sure what pictures you want (I shrank these to 1/4 original size, but I think they’re still readable):
6:20 this morning: only about 1/3 of my ‘normal’ unread are there. I browsed a couple of threads and things appear to be decrementing normally.
5 minutes later. More unread show up.
an hour later - this count seems like the real one.
Oh my god, I just realised I’ve never clicked the hamburger button. I can go straight to unread, new, latest etc. without clicking the house/back button.
With Unread showing (3) in both the main screen and hamburger menu, I click on one of the Unread threads. After reading the new posts in the thread, I click Back and then Refresh, and see this…
I’ve had a few times this morning where I’ll click on a thread, read a dozen-ish new posts, click on a new thread, and see that the posts I just read are showing up as unread again.
When I posted the second screen, I realized I had “new” selected, so I took the screen again, with unread selected and the total dropped back down to four.
And now we’re back to a respectable 30, but that’s still not the right total.
Let me do a full command line rebuild and see if that helps.
But only people who regularly carry 60+ unread topics are seeing this? I clear my unread, either by reading them until the last post, or moving them to “normal” state so I am no longer tracking / watching the topic.
And just to check in, does anyone else get the weirdass “Back button actually takes you somewhere other than the last page you were actually at” behavior on Chrome Android?
I’ve mentioned it before previously, but it’s ludicrously hard to replicate, but it’s been happening a lot the last few days.
To re-cap, the flow is generally:
VIEWING FORUM MAIN PAGE
Click Latest
VIEWING LATEST VIEW
Click Thread A
VIEWING THREAD A (and possibly shitpost in it)
Press Back
VIEWING LATEST VIEW
Click Thread B
VIEWING BREAD B
Press Back
VIEWING THREAD A
Somehow, the back behavior “skips” Latest View and resurfaces another page I was recently reading (e.g., Thread A in this example). Pressing Back again actually takes me all the way back to MAIN FORUM PAGE, skipping Latest entirely in the sequence. It’s as though THREAD A just “replaces” it in the stack of viewed pages in my browser.
It doesn’t happen more than 5% of the time, and no threads or views seem to cause it to occur more than any others; it feels completely random.
I’m gonna chime in and say that the numbers problem in the original post seem to have cleared up - I haven’t detected any issues in the last 12 hours or so. Will keep my eyes open for any problems though.
