Users Lists are broken
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I present a few examples of how user lists are just broken. They cannot be trusted.
Exhibit A
Found this in the Articles category (yes, staff can see unlisted):
Notice the discrepancy between the listed users and the number of replies. There really are only two replies, both are from @PJH. There are three users listed for this topic that aren't involved. It's probably due to the jeffed posts.
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Exhibit 2
Our beloved /t/1000 is just wrong. I actually get a different listing each day:
Here are the top posters for that topic:
As you can see, @faoileag shouldn't be on there, and I got bumped to @DarkMatter's spot for some reason.
Exhibit III
Even the status topic is affected:
Why isn't @RaceProUK in her rightful spot?
I've checked a few other topics as well, and 90% of them are affected.
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I got bumped to @ChaosTheEternal's spot
What now? You mean @darkmatter's spot? He's #3 in your "in-thread" screenshot, I'm just over 1000 posts in the thread.
INB4 blaming it on the Likes thread.
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What now? You mean @darkmatter's spot? He's #3 in your "in-thread" screenshot, I'm just over 1000 posts in the thread.
Sorry. Fixed.
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Dupe-ish:
Not really. The first avatar there is the OP. The second avatar is the most frequent poster who is not a participant, and the 1 is the number of replies.
In fact, your screen shot does not show this issue at all.
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I meant further downthread, in raceprouk's post.
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That one is a dupe, but I showed that it is a prevalent problem and provided a better description. My bug report is better. :P
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Then link to that post. Don't expect me to go to a different thread and read down several posts to find your "dupe".
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You dirty bastards, stealing my frontpageness.
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Also, given the screenshots provided by @RaceProUK, it is possible that she was on the topic page, the posts were added to the topic, and then she browsed in, resulting in the apparent disparity. Since the user lists don't get refreshed on the topic page, that would create the appearance of brokenness there.
My scenarios don't have that risk. A hasn't seen activity in a couple weeks, and 2 and III have had stable top posters for months.
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It's been long enough, I can't remember how I got that result.
Also, how long ago was that? That's the wedding avatar in those shots!
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That reminds me, I need a new avatar.
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yea me too. mine is also far too round!
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Still sort of round I guess. But whatever.
Also impossible to read unless you click for the profile page. oh well.
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The topic list user avatar column is an "Eventually Inconsistent" system.
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why'd they put so much time into trying to decide how to shadow and display first/last poster, etc on a system that doesn't even work.
wouldn't that time have been better spent making it actually able to do the things it was supposed to be doing in the first place?
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No, the bikeshed colour needs to be nailed down before they can even start looking at the reactor
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wouldn't that time have been better spent making it actually able to do the things it was supposed to be doing in the first place?
YMBNTD.
