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Topic # 73731 20-Dec-2010 23:50
Sometimes while browsing GZ I will jump directly to the last page of a thread to read the latest. I've found that occasionally it will say there are, as an example, 31 posts in the thread so it will list three pages. However when going to page 3 there will be no posts as there are infact only 30 posts. I wondered if this was due to a post being removed in between loading New Forum Posts and clicking the link. However I saw it again tonight while going to a thread I had just posted in a minute earlier so I know no posts were missing. Example (GZ Pizza Evening Thread which lists 31 replies): Page 3 links to: Now I'm pretty good at missing obvious discussions so I may have missed one about this already, if so apologies.

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Reply # 419772 20-Dec-2010 23:55
It happens when posts are removed... but the post counter just counts and so we end up with: Number of posts posted in thread history > Number of publicly shown posts I say publicly because it might be different to how mods see it. This has happened pretty much since ever, sometimes when you get email notifications they link to a blank page also because of the same issue. Mauricio would probably have a better answer, but that's my understanding of it. Find me on Twitter! I posted 1, 2 x 10^3 times!

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Reply # 419774 21-Dec-2010 00:03
manhinli: It happens when posts are removed... but the post counter just counts and so we end up with: Number of posts posted in thread history < Number of publicly shown posts I say publicly because it might be different to how mods see it. This has happened pretty much since ever, sometimes when you get email notifications they link to a blank page also because of the same issue. Mauricio would probably have a better answer, but that's my understanding of it. I was curious as to whether that might be the case but in the above mentioned example I'm sure all the posts were still there as I had just read the thread and posted in it. Before I posted there were 29 posts, when I posted it became 30 but the post counter said 31?

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Reply # 419787 21-Dec-2010 00:38
Should "Number of posts posted in thread history __ Number of publicly shown posts" in this case?? Thats what I would have thought too.

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Reply # 419788 21-Dec-2010 00:40
tomgeeknz: Should "Number of posts posted in thread history __ Number of publicly shown posts" in this case?? Thats what I would have thought too. Whoops... yes it should be ">" (greater than)... time to fix... Find me on Twitter! I posted 1, 2 x 10^3 times!

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Reply # 419790 21-Dec-2010 00:40
Im not sure if this does happen when posts are removed, i have 4 or 5 times over the last week clicked a link in an email only for it take take me to the start of say page 11 when in fact the last posted post was on the end of page 10??

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Reply # 419828 21-Dec-2010 08:20
If a user hides a post then number is correctly updated. Sometimes something happens and it's not (I know where it's happening just didn't fix it). We can "fix" individual threads or update everything. Something we can do now and then. Mauricio Freitas (Geekzone Admin, Devil's Advocate, my blog, technology disclosure, my tweets, Web Performance Optimization) Geekzone Price comparison \| Amazon Kindle order page \| How to get the best out of Geekzone \| New Zealand IT Jobs \| Geekzone News \| Jinglebugs

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Reply # 420992 23-Dec-2010 14:12
I just came across the problem again and i think you have some bad logic in your code. just posted in the NEW Total Home Broadband Account forum and it tells me their is 181 replies and seen as their is 15 posts per page, 180 /15 = 12 so the 181th post would sit on the 13th page. But its not the case because on the first page their are 16 posts(the original post + 15 replies) so the 181th post is only on the 12th page. Hope that makes sense

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Reply # 420994 23-Dec-2010 14:13
it might make it clearer if i say their are 180 replies + 1 post but the code is reporting them as 181 replies?