Thread page "ghosts"

[Shane Adams]

Has anyone else noticed in the past week or so that many times, on multi-page threads, there's an extra page numerical link that isn't really there? For example, if I click on a thread and I'm on page 7 of 8 (of the numerical page links), when I click on "8" it goes back to "7", which is actually the last page. I've seen this about half a dozen times in the past week or so. I figured it was just some random glitch that happens when you guys do the major overhauls and whatnot, but it's been common enough that it got my attention.

[Dustin Wilcox]

It tricked me into thinking I was pretty bad with the mouse a couple of times before I figured out what the hell was going on.

[Dan Robinson]

I've been seeing another problem where the forum re-marks all the threads I've viewed as unread, meaning to get them to go away from 'list recent posts', I have to click on all of them again to clear them out.

[Jeff Miller]

I had a problem this afternoon where I tried to post a "quick reply" in a thread and it simply would not let me do it. I reopened the forum and then it worked fine. Weird!

[Robert Edmonds]

I just had the same thing happen with the "Our Other Storm Chase Vehicles" thread. I try to go to page 3(since there is a link for page 3) and it takes me to page 2.

[Robert Edmonds]

Maybe it's me but I've had the "ghosts" appear a few more times. Am I the only one? It happens on both IE and Firefox.

[Bob Schafer]

I've had it happen quite a few times the last couple weeks or so. I currently can't access page 2 of the "Open Letter" thread.

[Shane Adams]

I've had it happen quite a few times the last couple weeks or so. I currently can't access page 2 of the "Open Letter" thread.

That's because it doesn't exist...the "page 2" you are seeing is really page 1. It's not that folks can't access certain page links, it's certain page links aren't really pages.

[Doug Lee]

I believe what is happening is that the bulletin board software is miscounting the number of posts. I noticed for one thread the front page showed one reply, but there was only the original post. 'One reply' usually means there is the original post and one reply comment.

Sounds like a job for Det. Drummond.

[Dave Gallaher]

I actually thought most-recent posts had been deleted from the threads, leaving a blank page.

[Bob Hall]

From what I’ve seen in the past administering other boards, vBulletin is particularly sensitive to the plug-ins or hacks that are installed. This seems to be a relatively new problem, I don’t know if the admins have recently installed any new behind the scenes features, but that would be my first suspect. The problem I’ve had in the past was that a combination hacks would interact and cause this type of behavior. We could use either one just fine, but the combination would cause this.

[Jeff Snyder]

Shane,

The time on your actual post (http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showpost.php?p=158775&postcount=17 ) is "12-08-2007, 10:44 PM". The time given on the "Last Post" column of the Bar and Grill forum counts a "vote" as if it were a post. In this case, it appears that someone voted at 10:32 am, which updated the " last post" time. I'm not sure why this software includes new votes when it comes to deciding "threads with new posts" and "last post" times, though. This particular issue should only occur in threads that have a poll.

[Tim Vasquez]

We are going to be doing some maintenance this week and part of that will be rebuilding the database and reindexing the posts... this will likely get rid of the issue. We're aware of the problem and will be working on it.

Tim