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Jan 19, 2002 | 06:30 PM

john s

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TT forum file corruption

If you look at threads near 09/12/01 17:05 you will find new threads dated 7/10/01
If you look at threads near 11/16/01 21:46 you will find new threads dated 9/26/01
If you look at threads near 05/08/01 04:23 you will find new threads dated 3/09/01
If you look at threads near 5/8/99 or 6/1/99 or 6/11/99 or 7/20/99 or 8/22/99 you will find missing pages

Can this be corrected and if so when can we expect it?

Jan 19, 2002 | 11:41 PM

Johannes Erdfelt

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I can't reproduce this

How did you figure this out? Have some links? Have some screen shots?

Both through my account and anonymously, I can see pages that smoothly go through 9/12/01 17:05 with no jumps on the magnitude you're reporting. I don't actually see any threads made at that time though.

What timezone have you set? I checked pacific and eastern timezones.

Jan 20, 2002 | 05:57 AM

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Eastern time, 100 threads per page

Look near:
Someone asked about WebCams. WSJ Web Cam of first tower collapse - TTom TTR 2001-09-13 12:57:00 (124 views)

Another example try going to page 543. Any good reason page numbers don't increase with time going forward? Would make it simple for keeping track of things with a set thread count.

Jan 20, 2002 | 11:01 AM

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Hmm, something isn't jiving

Page 543 with 100 threads per page would be in 1999, no where near 2001.

I did find a problem with a corrupted thread which I fixed manually. I've found a couple of threads like this in the past which resulted from the initial import of the forums from the old software. I'm working on a script to fix these tho. It would have resulted in the server crashing (well, that apache process atleast) and you getting no data back.

As for the page numbers going in reverse, there are 2 reasons for it:

1) Legacy. The old WWWBoard software did that and the idea was to keep the interface similar
2) 99% of hits go to the page with the most recent posts. That'll always be page 1 with this scheme, which is more intuitive to people.

Jan 20, 2002 | 05:43 PM

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Another example was meant as in a different case.

If you search near the dates I gave you an scan for the corrupted treads (easy since they are in a different month, you'll find them. As far as finding the missing pages, it's also easy, they don't display. I didn't post the message because I wanted you to remove the misplaced info, I did it in hope that you would find missing threads. Your inability to even find the misplaced stuff has me a bit puzzled.

Jan 20, 2002 | 06:57 PM

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I can't reproduce it, at all

Searching around that date doesn't cause the problem in the couple of different ways that I've tested.

That is why I asked for a better way to reproduce it.

It might be a bug in the software, and not missing data as you suspect. The data is there as far as I can see. Either way, I can't reproduce it given your description.