Thread Limbo Discovered

[Brian C]

There appears to be a thread limbo between pages one & two of the Blade Discussion Forum & possibly others. At around 0640 this morning, I wanted to see how many views our tomahawk poll was up to so I went to page one of the Blade Discussion Forum -- the thread wasn't there. I went to page two & it wasn't there either. A few minutes later, I returned to page two of the Blade Discussion Forum & there was the thread, first one on the page.

Apparently, when a thread moves off page one it doesn't appear on page two until another post on page one bumps it down further. Maybe the following will help to explain:

* When I first looked for the poll thread, the last thread on page one was time stamped at 8:17 PM EST 8/7/01. The first page two thread was time stamped at 7:52 PM EST 8/7/01. The last post to the hawk thread was made at 7:56 PM EST 8/7/01, between the other two.

* When the poll thread appeared first on page two, the last page one thread was time stamped at 8:33 PM EST 8/7/01. The 8:17 PM thread was then in limbo.

I hope this explanation makes sense.

 

[Paracelsus]

I have noticed this also going back several weeks.

My guess is that the special (priority) messages at the top of the page are displayed Before other threads. Since the page is set to display 25 topics, it seems to show the two or three priority messages, then the next 22-23 messages. Message numbers 24 and 25 do not show up on page two until they have been bumped down the list. Such messages are findable by searching, but until they are moved down page by other threads, they disappear from view.

I suspect this same sort of thing is happening on Any page in any forum that has a priority message thread. It is obviously more noticeable if there are several priority messages in a forum.

It is a Software glitch for sure. There is a mismatch between the thread index, and what is actually displayed caused by the new 'priority' message feature. Spark?

Paracelsus

 

[Spark]

Reported to software vendor.

Kevin