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Two fun issues that started happening around the same time.
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These both seem to be sporadic right now, but I'll try to see if there are conditions in which they can be consistently reproduced.
The go to first new post is intermittently taking me several pages back into threads I've read all of. It's usually the same post in that thread every time it happens on a particular thread, and they're usually posts between 11 p.m. and midnight EST last night. It's happening in Opera and FireFox, so I don't think it's something on my end.
Quoted replies are also randomly stripping an open quote tag from a chain of two or more, but not stripping the matching close tag. And I'm not talking ridiculous quote trees of six or twelve people or whatever. Just two or three. At first I thought I was inexplicably drunk and mis-editing quotes, but it's happened three or four times, including quotes I didn't edit down, and I've seen similarly broken quoting in two other people's posts today.
The go to first new post is intermittently taking me several pages back into threads I've read all of. It's usually the same post in that thread every time it happens on a particular thread, and they're usually posts between 11 p.m. and midnight EST last night. It's happening in Opera and FireFox, so I don't think it's something on my end.
Quoted replies are also randomly stripping an open quote tag from a chain of two or more, but not stripping the matching close tag. And I'm not talking ridiculous quote trees of six or twelve people or whatever. Just two or three. At first I thought I was inexplicably drunk and mis-editing quotes, but it's happened three or four times, including quotes I didn't edit down, and I've seen similarly broken quoting in two other people's posts today.
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Also, I only use FireFox for testing things, so the last time I used it to log into the forums was probably last year and several versions ago.
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Don't think I've seen the quote thing.
As an update to what I said earlier, it's not always going back to the same point in time anymore, but it will frequently go back to places before posts I've made. And not in the way that it does if a quick reply goes onto a new page. It'll go to points prior to multiple posts I've made in that thread. If I open multiple new tabs from the same instance of a sub-forum index, some threads will do it and some won't.
I only use Chrome, and I thought this was intended behaviour, the new post button seems to usually put me half-way through the thread- I assumed that's where it calculated I hadn't read and where the new posts started? It seems Aneurhythmia notices a specific behaviour that I never have. My time is set gmt +8 (beijing time), I'll see what the posts say next time I'm put not at the end of the thread.
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This started happening to me a while back and I thought it was a caching issue with the browser or a firewall issue as we recently had to downgrade to an older model firewall here at work thanks to the newer one packing up.
Occasionally the goto=newpost will take me back to the same "new" post from the first time I visited that forum that day and sometimes it'll do the intended behaviour and take me to the latest unread post.
A. Please don't hijack a thread to talk about a different issue
B. The issue in question is not a bug or fault and is not the concern of the rest of the forum
I can now confirm it happens in multiple browsers, on multiple computers, at different IPs/residences. It will persist in a few threads at a time, while other threads will simultaneously function normally. The threads it happens to tend to shift over time, too.
Sometimes it will continue to happen to the same threads, but the time of day it jumps to will move ahead. Often it jumps to something that would never have been a last read post for me at any point. This made me think of how search results don't always seem to be current, if I'm not mistaken on that. I assume updating the searchable posts is limited for overhead reasons. I wonder if this bug is similarly pegged to a periodic mechanism.