Weird forum web interface behavior

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 14:45:01 UTC 2018


On 10/31/18 7:12 AM, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
> Looking at the General forum just now, I noticed that for Walter's 
> "Avoiding code smells" thread, last post is reported as made by Walter 6 
> hours ago:
> 
> https://dl.dropbox.com/s/8o56d5tsr0yah40/dlang1.png
> 
> And yet, when clicking that last post link, his post appears at the top, 
> but there are obviously more posts made after that:
> 
> https://dl.dropbox.com/s/x6d3z9yncet76ol/dlang2.png
> 
> What gives?

Because H.S. Teoh replied to a thread in announce, but for some reason 
posted it to the general group.

The newsgroup stores which messages are in reply to which threads, and 
when I click on that link, it brings me to the announce forum post. So I 
think this confuses the web interface.

-Steve


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