New Forum Bug Reports

[northernladuk]

Any chance we can fix this caching issue or whatever you said it was that won't show the latest threads when viewing the areas of the forums. Really annoying to have to go in to every single part of the forum just to check if there is a new post and in some of the quieter areas of the forums posts just won't get answered.

[ladymuck]

When logged in now get a grey screen when clicking on profile link.

Better viewing than my profile to be fair.

qh

Known issue. Just hit refresh several times and it'll eventually load.

[quackhandle]

When logged in now get a grey screen when clicking on profile link.

Better viewing than my profile to be fair.

qh

[vetran]

No idea what happened there, unless one of the mods did something weird Should be all right now, at https://forums.contractoruk.com/gene...ibel-case.html

Mods + weird? rumours about whipped cream & strawberry jam are exaggerated.

Thanks !

[NickFitz]

Some thread links return a 404. Like SueEllens link about SYL's libel case today.


https://forums.contractoruk.com/gene...his-libel-case

Yep no-one moved the thread.

Interestingly if mentioning him is banned how comes you can see the link if you hover over my thread title?

No idea what happened there, unless one of the mods did something weird Should be all right now, at https://forums.contractoruk.com/gene...ibel-case.html

[ladymuck]

Yep no-one moved the thread.

Interestingly if mentioning him is banned how comes you can see the link if you hover over my thread title?

He's not banned. It's just the forum software having a spakoid moment.

[SueEllen]

Some thread links return a 404. Like SueEllens link about SYL's libel case today.


https://forums.contractoruk.com/gene...his-libel-case

Yep no-one moved the thread.

Interestingly if mentioning him is banned how comes you can see the link if you hover over my thread title?

[vetran]

I have absolutely no idea what that means but it looks good. You da man.

And the caching of the threads so the latest thread shows when viewing the forum home page?

I fell asleep half way through as NLyUK will tell you is common!

But I for one trust Nick!

[vetran]

Some thread links return a 404. Like SueEllens link about SYL's libel case today.


https://forums.contractoruk.com/gene...his-libel-case

[northernladuk]

That's been a really tricky one to work out a way around, but it's almost there now

I'm surprised the vBulletin developers never caught it though. The problem is that when threads or posts are moved, it tries to invalidate its internal cache for everything beneath the relevant things; but that includes the subforums themselves. So if, for example, you try to move a thread from Technical to General, it tries to build an array containing an ID for every single post in both of those subforums (and anything beneath) and, unsurprisingly given there are several million of them, the process exhausts its available memory and crashes.

At this point things have been moved, so that's not a huge issue; the mods get an error message, which isn't perfect, but may be bearable. But the problem is that the necessary changes to fix up the URLs haven't happened yet.

I've finally established a point in the internal APIs where I can safely override the default behaviour so it'll run successfully to completion, at which point it's safe for my extension code to fix the URLs. So it shouldn't be long before the mods can resume casting the unwary out of the safe havens of the professional forums into the pit of General

I have absolutely no idea what that means but it looks good. You da man.

And the caching of the threads so the latest thread shows when viewing the forum home page?