Duplicate threads

[NickFitz]

Has it anything to do with the new mobile app? (I have my suspicions... )

Could be. One hypothesis is that the mobile app attempts to be resilient in the face of loss of network connection by caching any HTTP POSTs that don't get through and retrying them later, and some bug means it's doing that even though the POST did succeed. (Incidentally, this points up an intractable problem with the creation of new resources via an unreliable network; and all networks are unreliable.)

It could even not be a bug: maybe those users did briefly lose connectivity as they posted, so the app genuinely had no reason to be aware of the success in posting. I'd suggest the app should prompt the user as to whether to repost, though of course the user may not know whether to or not, or may just hit "Yes" without reading.

It's a very tricky problem, which can't easily be resolved unless both the client and server applications have been written with the presumption of interrupted connectivity. (Even then it's not exactly "easy".)

[administrator]

Cheers Nick. I thought Mudskipper's post was a complaint about the parody threads, hence my comment about the ban hammer. I haven't seen any deleted posts that were dupes, can you link me up with any dupe posts or threads please. Will PM the mods as well.

Yes, have updated the tapatalk app (yesterday) so if these have just started appearing then this is the likely cause.

The old version has been in for about three months and had no problems so if we are seeing dupe posts since yesterday then this could well be it.

It is only the Android version that has been updated so far, the Apple one is still awaiting approval, and has been since last Friday!

I haven't announced the update as I want to remove the shared tapatalk app and just use the self-published one, but no point getting the old tapatalk app users to update to the new one until the iOS one is approved.

So shout me if you see any dupes and we can try and work out what is happening.

[northernladuk]

Ban Hammer?? Wotchu talkin about Lewis?

Oh hang on there is a hammer...
Move along nothing to see here!

[mudskipper]

Cheers Nick. I thought Mudskipper's post was a complaint about the parody threads, hence my comment about the ban hammer. I haven't seen any deleted posts that were dupes, can you link me up with any dupe posts or threads please. Will PM the mods as well.

Yes, have updated the tapatalk app (yesterday) so if these have just started appearing then this is the likely cause.

The old version has been in for about three months and had no problems so if we are seeing dupe posts since yesterday then this could well be it.

It is only the Android version that has been updated so far, the Apple one is still awaiting approval, and has been since last Friday!

I haven't announced the update as I want to remove the shared tapatalk app and just use the self-published one, but no point getting the old tapatalk app users to update to the new one until the iOS one is approved.

So shout me if you see any dupes and we can try and work out what is happening.

I think your super-efficient early morning mod combined the duplicate threads.

They were the ones listed in my original post - one of them did have a spacing change suggesting the user did edit before the repost. My duplicate 'duplicate threads' post, was a parody...

Perhaps some of the original dupe posters can comment on what happened?

[northernladuk]

So shout me if you see any dupes and we can try and work out what is happening.

Admin I have seen one! Psychocandy is trying to dupe clients in to thinking he is a skilled professional resource and he is worth hiring. Can I have my gold star now?

[amcdonald]

Is it possible to delete a thread if you started it, to kill a duplicate ?

[Churchill]

It's admin fcking with your brains! Ban him!

[NickFitz]

You could narrow it down by asking the thread starters if they were using the app

I had a feeling I saw a dupe thread sometime in the last week or two, but maybe that's déjà vu