New Replies Not Showing Up on Main Forum

[JamesG]

I've noticed this happening a few times on the forum lately. Sometimes a new reply doesn't show up on the page and it looks as though no one else responded.

On the Complaint Forum I see that I am the most recent reply on the Main Board, but clicking on the thread shows that CoffeeCup responded after me a few days later. For some reason her name doesn't show on the main page.

https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards...352969&page=33

[SledgeBarone]

I've seen this a couple of times as well, where I was the most recent poster on a thread, but the thread list shows the last post as someone else's earlier posting.

[James28]

This has happened to me, too. I posted on the CBS General News and Discussion thread for 2020-21 on November 15, but the last reply listed was by MA, from November 10. I just don't know what could be causing this new bug.

[SledgeBarone]

Originally Posted by James28

This has happened to me, too. I posted on the CBS General News and Discussion thread for 2020-21 on November 15, but the last reply listed was by MA, from November 10. I just don't know what could be causing this new bug.

Direct link: https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards...25#post5822025

And here's my post in the Gilligan's Island forum (Gilligan's Island A To Z Game #2 thread) that I believe was skipped over as the Most Recent post for a time (there were subsequent posts a week later): https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards...53#post5813053

The only curious commonality between those posts that I can think of is that they both contain apostrophes.

[TJ]

I'm not sure what's causing that. It could just be a temporary glitch with too many connections at the time. James28, I just deleted your post and then restored it. It now displays as the last post.

[stevea]

Yes, I had this happen last night. I made a late post, and the next morning it still showed the previous poster on the 50s Forum. I had closed the Sitcoms application and it was this morning after I had reopened it, that it did not show up. I deleted and reposted it, which solved the problem.

[TJ]

This has been happening a decent amount it seems on different boards. I changed some of the settings to see if it will have any impact.

Cached Posts Lifespan
Number of days to maintain a cached copy of a post. This makes threads faster to display, but means that each post takes approximately twice the storage space.

I changed that from 7 to 0 days. It might have something to do with the posts being cached.

If you delete your post and re-post it, it usually shows up. There's no rhyme or reason for it to happen. It's not something that you can predict.

[GentlemanJim]

Originally Posted by TJ

This has been happening a decent amount it seems on different boards. I changed some of the settings to see if it will have any impact.

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In times passed, I've had a situation where replies I have made to a particular thread, do appear as they are supposed to, but the header reporting "last post by...." continued to show the name of the poster immediately before me.

Then, earlier this week I had the exact opposite problem. A reply that I made did not show up in line, but the "last post by" header showed my name, despite the post itself being no where to be found. Even more strange, I waited about a half hour to see if the lost message would miraculously appear...and when it didn't I went ahead and reposted it, without incident.

Except about an hour later the missing post suddenly reappeared, immediately next to the replacement post I had made in the interim

Just a suggestion, but I'd look at whatever process allowed the server to report "last post by" accurately, when in fact the post itself was MIA. Sounds like a corrupt database problem to me.

[icecream]

Now the opposite is happening. A phantom post from Schmo at 8:23 isn't there. It shows up as the last post in 90s sitcoms under the Family Matters thread where Urkel is whining about never being invited to the Emmys. The last actual post there is from RetroGuy2000 at 4:50.

[TJ]

Originally Posted by catsrule

Now the opposite is happening. A phantom post from Schmo at 8:23 isn't there. It shows up as the last post in 90s sitcoms under the Family Matters thread where Urkel is whining about never being invited to the Emmys. The last actual post there is from RetroGuy2000 at 4:50.

Schmo deleted their post, so that's why it wasn't showing up. I don't know if people editing their posts is causing the issue.

[stevea]

OK this is interesting. Today user OHNuts posted in this forum, "Generally" at 2:42.

https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards...05#post5889005

His post would NOT show up for me. I tried several methods to search, and it gave no indication of having been deleted. But it just was not there!

I tried something--I had noticed an earlier reply of mine had duplicate-posted (this happens sometimes on quick replies which generate a VERY long delay before finally posting). I hadn't bothered to delete the duplicate when I originally saw it, but a few minutes ago I removed my duplicate "Central" post.

After I did that the OHNuts post appeared!

I think these duplicate posts sometimes must hose up the database. At least this time it appeared to have. It'd be nice to find out why this happens.

[stevea]

Also notice in this thread, in order to make OH Nuts 12:14 post appear, I had to delete one of my previous posts. As of now on the ELR site the post count shows 600 but the real count is 601.

https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards...394161&page=40

[stevea]

The post count is off by one on the Word Conga thread referred to in the post above (#11), too.

I'm wondering if the database is getting too full and some stuff needs to be archived. Some strange things going on!

[stevea]

The post count is off by one on the Word Conga thread referred to in the post above (#11), too.

I'm wondering if the database is getting too full and some stuff needs to be archived. Some strange things going on!

[stevea]

Note that the post above went in twice.