Statistics & Last Post Columns

[Donw]

Since you are moving the site to a new installation I request you fix the long standing problems with these two columns.
As examples from Recent Post today:

The Favorite Quotes thread shows the last post by Stuey1515 at 3:18AM, however 7 members have posted in this thread since that time.

In the thread Fight Night! the Statistics column shows 0 posts yet people have posted to that thread today, and there have also been comments.

Keeping track of posts should work in forum software.

[Jerod Broussard]

"Should" and "Will" have a very close working relationship. I'm glad I can't spell IT.

raywjohnson

[Huskee]

Just as a FYI the move is the free site, it and the forum here are 2 different animals. But RayJ will see your suggestion regardless. What you're noticing is an ongoing issue that happens once in a while, I believe it's a system cache issue. Something similar is one user's avatar showing next to another user's name. To make sure if it's on your end or the system you can always try a hard refresh (cache clear) on your end. PC = Ctrl+F5 and for Mac it's Cmnd+R.

[Jerod Broussard]

Why does the notice say Pitmaster Club Forum?

[Donw]

Says "Pitmaster Club forum" in the notice above. And this problem exists after clearing all caches, and in several different browsers.

[rickgregory]

The cache issue is, IIRC, server side. Nothing each of us can do. There's a balance between providing real time views and server load. If you have a lot of traffic it's best to cache things so a sizable number of people see a prebuilt version of the page. But on a dynamic site, you want to see updates right away. There's a whole methodology around when to invalidate (clear) the cache on sites like this.

[Huskee]

Oh, My bad. I thought y'all were referring to the free site's big upcoming change. I wasn't even thinking of this vBulletin switcheroo in the notice above.. my bad.

[Jerod Broussard]

Whew....you had me worried my crap was jacked up!

[Panhead John]

Nothing worse than jacked up crap.

[Panhead John]

Something I’ve been noticing the last several weeks or so. It’s taking a much longer time to change pages than normal. Especially when I’m clicking on messages. It sometimes takes 5 or 6 seconds to show my messages after clicking on "messages". And I have fast internet speeds. And it just starting happening a month or so ago. Anyone else noticing this lag time?
raywjohnson

[Stuey1515]

In the last week or so it seems to take some time for the site to update when posting, to the point it seems there is something wrong

[Donw]

Yes. Occasional extreme delays when posting for me. The little Working sign stays on so long that I often wonder is something crashed.

[raywjohnson]

I'm glad I can't spell IT.

Classic...

Since you are moving the site to a new installation I request you fix the long standing problems with these two columns.
As examples from Recent Post today:

The Favorite Quotes thread shows the last post by Stuey1515 at 3:18AM, however 7 members have posted in this thread since that time.

In the thread Fight Night! the Statistics column shows 0 posts yet people have posted to that thread today, and there have also been comments.

Keeping track of posts should work in forum software.

I checked this out. It is as you say. It is not working correctly.

I did a little testing and found the problem. The cache is not updating. Not your browser cache, the forum software's cache. There is a function to clear it, but that should not be needed. When a new post is created, the cache is supposed to update so that when you view the thread list, you see the updated info.

I will put this on my fix it list.