Endless/Nameless Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 (edited) I'm sure this an probably an isolated thing nobody can fix, but I feel like whining about it anyway. A bit ago I replied to a post in the "forum mascot" thread. I wrote the reply from page 1 so I could quote another post from that page, so when I hit da button, the site did it's thing and started loading up the current page with my new reply as per usual. But instead of loading properly, I got a blank page. I went back to the subforum listing and noticed it still said the last post was by Amiir, not me. Any attempts to enter the thread again resulted in a bank page. So, I signed out, emptied my cache of all data relating to corvidae.org, and signed back in. The subforum page still showed the thread's latest poster inaccurately until someone else replied to it, but I could finally get back into the thread and see that my reply was, indeed, there. Then, I head back to my usual lurking spot, "All Activity", and see that almost everything older than 20mins had been fucked away, as shown in the below screenshot:(it's only in that awful "condensed" mode to fit more in my screenshot. I don't actually use it that way) Restarting my browser did nuthin. (Safari for Mac) The symptoms also extend to my other devices. Also I appear to be seeing site UI elements that hadn't appeared before.... And others that that are distressingly missing........ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Edited May 25, 2016 by Endless/Nameless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Sounds like a caching problem. Next time maybe you should look at the JS and network console and see if there are any errors with JavaScript or Ajax requests, just to eliminate variables. If it keeps happening it might need a cache bust at the application/proxy/CDN layer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 @Carenath just applied a forum software update, and as part of the update procedure, he cleared the cache. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endless/Nameless Posted May 25, 2016 Author Share Posted May 25, 2016 Just now, ArielMT said: @Carenath just applied a forum software update, and as part of the update procedure, he cleared the cache. OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. That makes sense. Kinda weird that would end affecting so much on the users end. Someone should post a notification & changelog or something when that happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 55 minutes ago, Endless/Nameless said: OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. That makes sense. Kinda weird that would end affecting so much on the users end. Someone should post a notification & changelog or something when that happens. In theory, nothing should happen as a result of a minor update. However, in theory there isn't a difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is. We'll start doing that, I will personally if need be, and we'll do better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 54 minutes ago, Endless/Nameless said: OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. That makes sense. Kinda weird that would end affecting so much on the users end. As I said in another thread, the cache would update the messages periodically so a query isn't run for every request. It obviously uses Ajax or HTML5 to manage new post alerts so it would push these and new posts the user creates onto the stack. This probably goes away if you aren't logged in, since two users can use one computer at different times. 3 minutes ago, ArielMT said: In theory, nothing should happen as a result of a minor update. However, in theory there isn't a difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is. We'll start doing that, I will personally if need be, and we'll do better. If it was just clearing the cache causing a temporary problem with stale data, that's normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endless/Nameless Posted May 25, 2016 Author Share Posted May 25, 2016 4 minutes ago, ArielMT said: In theory, nothing should happen as a result of a minor update. However, in theory there isn't a difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is. Is this brain yoga? 4 minutes ago, ArielMT said: we'll do better. Aww, I ain't mad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Aka ideal situations are never the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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