Has anyone else seen this strange bug on Qt3? I’m reading a thread and trying to get to the last page, but clicking on it just sends me back to the current, next-to-last page.
For example, right now in this thread:
Trying to click on “43” or the next page arrow or even typing “43” instead of “42” in the address bar merely reloads the current page.
Was there just one post on page 43 that had been deleted? But in that case, why does the reloaded page still show a link to page 43?
I have encountered this several times. I always assumed as you have that the last page contained one post which was subsequently deleted and this is a display bug. But I don’t know.
Jarmo
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This bug showed up in the last two to three days. I’m getting it several times a day in different threads. I get the error in your linked thread, Chris. I yesterday tried changing posts per page from 40 to 30 but it was the same.
Oh good, you guys see it too. Thought I was hallucinating.
I’m seeing it in Tapatalk too. I think it is a fake extra page – without posts on it at least.
I think it’s just a page counting bug. When there is exactly a multiple of the number of post per page the forum is erroneously saying there’s a new page when there shouldn’t be. For example, if the number of posts per page is 30 (the default I believe) and there are exactly 30 posts in a thread the page count displays a second page, but really there isn’t, you’re seeing every post.
Lorini
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stusser? I’m having the same problem.
If that’s true I would expect to see that bug a lot more frequently than I actually do, though. Or else the page counting bug is only triggered under some special conditions.
Why, on average it would only happen 1/30th of the time.
Yeah, it’s my subjective impression that the bug is much rarer than that.
It seems to be happening in threads where spammer posts had been deleted. stusser might need to rebuild the thread caches or something like that to fix it up.
Yeah it has something to do with deleted users or posts. Another vBulletin forum I used to read had that problem, but just left it there for years. It was maddening. I hope there’s a way to rebuild the database sometime and clean it up.
Whew, I thought it was just my installation of Chrome.
Jarmo
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No, clearly this conclusively proves the forum AI is cheating! The bastards!
Skipper
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Since some of us aren’t seeing the same thing you guys are can you narrow this down a bit? Which browser, which post, and/or what do you have your default posts per page set at?
I just saw this again in the Elemental thread. James Johnson posted the 5490th post, the last on page 183. The page told me there was a page 184 but clicking it took me to page 183 again. Later the thread showed a 5491st post but I still couldn’t get to page 184; James Johnson’s post still showed up as the last. Just now davidf posted the 5492nd post and now I can see page 184 which begins with post 5491 by Oghier, which was already marked as read.
It has nothing to do with a browser. It can change quickly because once someone makes a post or two, the threshold has changed and now the forum software is back to displaying a complete page. You’ll see it eventually if you read certain threads like the Elemental one.
Lorini
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I just saw it in the MLB thread.
Almost positive this is it. Every time I’ve seen it, the actual last post in the thread is not by the same poster that the thread summary says is the last poster in the thread, leading me to suspect that person posted then deleted their post.
Synth
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As has been said several times now, its just to do with data (posts etc.) being deleted. Vbulletin maintains its own count of threads/posts rather than just counting records in the database. The same is true of the last poster, thats just cached as well. Under certain circumstances when things are deleted the internal counts dont get updated. And once they dont match you get pagination errors as described. Theres an option in the admin to resync them. I’m sure if you nag the board administrator, he/she will do it.
