Discrepancies

Palomar · 2004-04-21 11:29:04

*I've been noticing today and yesterday that, after I've submitted a post, there are characters run together which weren't that way prior. While typing and then quickly proofing the post, everything is okay. I noticed a period crammed next to a bracket (when I'd initially double spaced between them). Then I noticed an apostrophe appearing behind an "s" where none should be.

This is weird.

Is this happening to anyone else? I'm having to go back and edit the "mistakes" out.

--Cindy

clark · 2004-04-21 11:42:29

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Josh Cryer · 2004-04-21 14:37:19

If it happens again Cindy, PM me, and I'll try to rebuild the topic. I've never noticed that in my 4+ years with Ikonboard (I host my own on my website). It'd be cool if you figured out the exact sequence that repeated it, too, as the Ikonboard people wouldn't mind a nifty bug report (of course, you'd have to live with it for awhile, until Adrian decided to upgrade, but we don't upgrade that often for stablity reasons I'm sure).

Maybe you're just imaginin' it though.

edit, I should note that browser forms (what you type in when you reply) may treat behavior at the end of a form differently. I've had this occur many times, when a word exists on the wraparound point and it not be spaced properly. Something about how the form treats whitespace. So this is what may have happened to you, Cindy.

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Mundaka · 2004-04-29 04:29:36

Rxke · 2004-04-29 05:07:29

yup.

The 'reusable....fiction' thread has this for me, I can see there's been possted new, but it gives 'empty' pages (5 and 6)

Palomar · 2004-04-29 07:01:48

yup.
The 'reusable....fiction' thread has this for me, I can see there's been possted new, but it gives 'empty' pages (5 and 6)

*Hey guys. Do this:

Go back to those threads, hit "+Add Reply" button, then scroll down. You can read posts beneath the reply box in backward order (most recent on top). You can copy and paste what's been written (which you can't see/read normally) and start a new thread from there.

I, too, have noticed threads corrupting more easily. I wonder if Adrian can cull some of the older threads...particularly ones which didn't get a lot of hits/replies. But I don't know anything about Ikonboards, so...just a suggestion. Maybe it's getting overloaded. ::shrugs::

--Cindy

Adrian · 2004-04-29 07:58:27

It's a good suggestion... might be worth archiving or retiring some of the older threads to see if that'd help. Will look at it in a bit (Josh, feel free to explore options as well).

Josh Cryer · 2004-05-01 06:34:48

I couldn't find the thread you guys were talking about when I read this the other day, which is why I didn't respond until today. I dunno about archiving threads. I reckon just archiving them as was done to the "First Words" forum wouldn't shrink the database or make anything faster. What could be done is a mass pruning, say, every topic from 6 months ago or more (although interestingly enough, the vast majority of all the topics on this forum were made within the last 5 months!).

I would happily do the pruning, should take less than 30 minutes (maybe more for the more popular forums, like "free chat"). It'd be a shame to do so without having all the posts archived for prosperity somewhere on a CD (actually, might even be dangerous to do such a mass pruning without backing up, now that I think of it; wouldn't be much more effort to save the backup somewhere), but that's of course up to you guys (hey, some of my early day posts are a bit embarrassing anyhow!).

Over and out.

Rxke · 2004-05-01 08:49:49

You mean with "pruning" deleting from the boards?

Why should you do that, this board is amongst the fastest i know, so speed is not an issue, and most people actually like to browse through the 'mouldy oldies' as a proof of that, you can see sometimes years-old threads being "revived" for discussion etc...

Adrian · 2004-05-01 09:33:02

Yeah, the forum speed is fine (mostly because Pair's servers are very fast) and we have plenty of free webspace for now - the only reason we'd prune threads is to try and stop these corrupted threads from happening. I'm not entirely sure whether that'd work though.

Palomar · 2004-05-01 15:55:38

*Not going to create a new thread for this. I've noticed another odd thing occurring (just read ANTIcarrot.'s post in a thread he started): More frequently now, old posts -- even made by a person long since gone -- are welling back up (via simply viewing the boards or using "New Posts" feature). The most recent one occurred in the thread I started in Civ & Culture, about architecture. The last person who posted did so days ago; yet today a "new" post was registered as being there. I'm noticing this happening more often, sometimes even two or three times with the same thread. There is no new post, just an old one which the board identifies as "new" -- including the blue box being lit beside it.

--Cindy

Josh Cryer · 2004-05-01 15:56:21

Yeah, oops, speed wasn't the problem, sorry for the confusion.

I agree that pruning may or may not solve this problem. I think maybe a database switch would be better (if possible). I think I'll go over to the Ikonboard help site and see what they'd suggest.

Pair's a good host.

edit: Cindy, looks like we posted at about the same time; I think you're on to something. Reviving old threads seems to be causing this problem.

Edited By Josh Cryer on 1083448681

Rxke · 2004-05-01 22:57:41

Hmmmm. AaaHHH... I noticed that too, is already happening for a long time... But ... I thought that was just a harmless pseudobug in IkonBoard's software: it always happens with polls (no?) and i think it's just a case of someone voting w/o posting a comment... So you get the correct 'last posted' date, but it shows the name of the last comment-submitter, not the voter (anonymous voting system...)

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