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TR Glitch or Magic - How'd This Happen?

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by maxwell edison

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As some of you know, I have a question currently open in the Q&A forum. (Hey, a little more exposure could never hurt.) A very strange thing happened, and I'm not sure how.

As we all probably know, when you post a question or answer in that forum, you can return later and post an additional comment to that question or answer, whichever the case may be. But you can't post a comment to someone else's question or answer - or can you? (Yes, I know you can post a comment to someone else's answer, if it's your question, but only when you rate - accept or reject - that answer.)

How in the heck did Joseph Moore post a comment to my question? I know that Joseph is a smart guy. We've conversed on more than one occasion, he's one of the top Q&A scorers, and he does know a lot about a lot of things. But how'd he do that? Is it magic, or is it a glitch in TR's database? (It does appear, however, that he intended to post that comment to a different question or answer, as the content of the comment doesn't really make sense.)

Link to the question in question:

http://tinyurl.com/ie9y

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by cactus pete

I've been getting lots of magic from TR for months, actually. But it has all been client side [my browser] so far. I have seen, though, that some people post answers to the wrong question [this just has never happened to me yet].

When you open two discussions at the same time, or two questions at the same time, the content may not be qhat you expected.

Try this the next time you think TR's site is being slow:

Open the link in which you are interested into a new window [right click onthe link]. While it's SLOWLY loading, do the same for a few other links. This has been most notable for me in the list of "My Discussions" or "New..", etc...

It seems like there is a content caching server somewhere in the TR site that just plain gets confused. Either they need a bigger pipe, or they need more muscle on that server [cluster?].

Of course, it could simply be an overworked database, too... [I'm shying away from saying it's poorly designed...]

by jackofalltech

I've noticed the same behaviour. I use MyIE2 (multiple-tab browser) and open all the topics/questions that interest me. I have to wait for each one to fully open before starting the next one. Annoying.

Ralph

by thechas

Hi Max,

A couple of weeks back, I sent an e-mail to the Discussion Forum as the most active discussion list was not being properly updated.

In the reply, they informed me that a major update to the site would be happening soon.

I suspect that the "glitches" we have been seeing are from the testing they are doing before switching over to the new version.

Chas

by oz_media

I've posted to discussions and when returning to the discussion, the thread is updated. Later in the day, the POST is gone, the next day it still isn't there, I repost and then find BOTH posts there upon returnin to the topic.

TR did answer my post email regarding suggested changes to the Q&A forum and said they were rebuilding and would have our threads reveiwed.

With respect to the thread in question here, I looked and agree that it looks like a glitch, someone posted a comment and it was added to the wrong thread somehow.

Either that or Saddam is having a good laugh right now?!?

by joseph moore

No, seriously, Max, I have no idea how I got a comment to ANOTHER question in your VPN question. Just another glitch due to this new Jive Software upgrade.

I have seen some strange things happening since the upgrage. Some post now are partially in bold text (like one of my comments that are associated with my original answer post to your question). Also, I closed a question (on the Microsoft RPC patch) last Monday, but the question was still up in the Top 5 Open Questions section on Thursday.
So, there are some strange things going on here since the upgrade.

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