Red Dwarf frames with threatening auras

[Moonlight]

We were pulling all those frames of Kryten looking ominous a couple weeks ago, and hey, it’s not like we ever post Smegadrive images on here.

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[International Debris]

I see Cappsy hasn’t fixed the new page glitch yet then

[Dave]

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[Moonlight]

Chris makes this face basically any time he speaks in the Dave era.

[Ben Saunders]

Lister, falling in the dark, on Red Dwarf. And then Rimmer makes a face.

[Dave]

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[Podey]

I see Cappsy hasn’t fixed the new page glitch yet then

I genuinely have no idea what any of you are talking about with this. I’ve never seen or noticed any issue whilst browsing on an iPad.

What happens?

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

I see Cappsy hasn’t fixed the new page glitch yet then

I genuinely have no idea what any of you are talking about with this. I’ve never seen or noticed any issue whilst browsing on an iPad.

What happens?

New pages display without any comment, until someone posts a comment. 

I’m not sure if it’s hiding the comment that triggers the page to generate or not. But either way it can be seen with any new page on any forum post. 

[Podey]

Yeah, definitely have never seen that at my end.

(thanks for explaining)

[Flap Jack]

To go into probably unnecessary detail, the issue is with the navigation to a thread from the “Recent Forum Posts” section – or if you click an “[X] new” button from the main Forum page. If the current number of replies (not posts) is an exact multiple of 50, then the website thinks that the most recent reply is the first of a new page, when it’s actually the last of the last page. So clicking the link takes you to a page which does not yet exist, which shows as just the forum heading with no posts and no navigation buttons. You need to manually correct the page number in the address bar to fix it, or navigate back to the first post via the main Forum page… or just make another reply to stop the issue from happening in the first place.

This also causes a secondary issue, where even if the bug isn’t currently active, if the last reply you saw in a thread was the second to last of a page, clicking to see new posts will cause you to miss the last reply of the page – because it still thinks that reply is on the wrong page.

The reason this seems to happen is that the site is counting the OP as a reply, when it isn’t one. Page 1 of a thread contains 51 posts in total, but when it looks for where the newest post should be, it assumes that Page 1 will only contain 50 posts.

[Moonlight]

[Podey]

To go into probably unnecessary detail, the issue is with the navigation to a thread from the “Recent Forum Posts” section – or if you click an “[X] new” button from the main Forum page. If the current number of replies (not posts) is an exact multiple of 50, then the website thinks that the most recent reply is the first of a new page, when it’s actually the last of the last page. So clicking the link takes you to a page which does not yet exist, which shows as just the forum heading with no posts and no navigation buttons. You need to manually correct the page number in the address bar to fix it, or navigate back to the first post via the main Forum page… or just make another reply to stop the issue from happening in the first place.
This also causes a secondary issue, where even if the bug isn’t currently active, if the last reply you saw in a thread was the second to last of a page, clicking to see new posts will cause you to miss the last reply of the page – because it still thinks that reply is on the wrong page.
The reason this seems to happen is that the site is counting the OP as a reply, when it isn’t one. Page 1 of a thread contains 51 posts in total, but when it looks for where the newest post should be, it assumes that Page 1 will only contain 50 posts.

Aha! I literally never navigate to the forum that way so that explains why I have never seen it, I think. 

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[Ben Saunders]

[Podey]

This isn’t “Red Dwarf frames with existentialist auras”, Ben.

[Dave]

Red Dwarf frames with existentialist auras

[International Debris]

[Podey]

My mistake!

[Moonlight]

This isn’t “Red Dwarf frames with existentialist auras”, Ben.

It is now.

[Dave]

[Moonlight]

[Jonathan Capps]

I see Cappsy hasn’t fixed the new page glitch yet then

Ok, fiiiine. The issue will either now be gone, or will be 1 worse than it was before. Let’s find out!!!!!1

[Ian Symes]

He may not be fast, and he’s not even sure if he’s got there in the end.

[Flap Jack]

Thanks, Cappsy. 🙂

The issue doesn’t seem to be fixed (and FWIW I did do a cache clear and a new login), but I believe in positive reinforcement.

And it hasn’t got worse, so that’s good.

[Jonathan Capps]

[Jonathan Capps]

…now?

[Flap Jack]

OK, it does seem to be fixed now! Hugely appreciated, thank you Mr. Capps.

[Dave]

Now I miss the new page bug, can we put it back to how it was?

[Ian Symes]

Instead, here’s a new beige pug:

[Dave]

Acceptable.

[Technopeasant]

Now make that start every page.

[Dave]

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[clem]

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[clem]

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[Dave]

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[Technopeasant]

I assume we are getting a banner now?

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[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

You guys are space crazy 

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