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Help & Queries => Technical Queries => Topic started by: Aldous on October 12, 2006, 01:45:05 AM



Title: Duplicate posts (unintentional multiple postings)
Post by: Aldous on October 12, 2006, 01:45:05 AM
Rao,

What's up with all these duplicate posts? It has even happened to our moderator on more than one occasion. Seems to be a recent phenomenon. I'm getting nervous every time I'm about to hit the "submit" button...


Title: Re: Duplicate posts (unintentional multiple postings)
Post by: Super Monkey on October 12, 2006, 02:52:35 AM
This should help:

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=214939


Title: Re: Duplicate posts (unintentional multiple postings)
Post by: Aldous on October 12, 2006, 03:00:32 AM
Quote from: "Super Monkey"
This should help:

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=214939


Super Monkey, what in tarnation does all that mean??  :gah:


Title: Re: Duplicate posts (unintentional multiple postings)
Post by: MatterEaterLad on October 12, 2006, 12:06:41 PM
:lol: Wow, a double post...

Anyways, the boards have been a bit wonky lately, but I figure its a glitch that will get fixed.


Title: Re: Duplicate posts (unintentional multiple postings)
Post by: Great Rao on October 12, 2006, 05:14:38 PM
Hey Beppo, thanks for the link.  Looks like a great mod.  In the meantime, I've increased the flood interval from 5 seconds to 30 seconds.  What this means is that if you attempt to re-post an article you've just posted, you'll get an error saying that you "can't make a post so soon after your last one."  IE, the article you had just attempted to post was actually succesfully posted even though it may not have looked like it.

Aldous, I'm not sure why these duplicate posts have been happening.  Most likely a php performance issue.  The web hoster is aware that there is a problem.

:s:


Title: Re: Duplicate posts (unintentional multiple postings)
Post by: Super Monkey on October 14, 2006, 11:49:31 AM
It is still not working, since I am still seeing double posts.


Title: Re: Duplicate posts (unintentional multiple postings)
Post by: Aldous on October 14, 2006, 03:46:50 PM
Quote from: "Great Rao"
In the meantime, I've increased the flood interval from 5 seconds to 30 seconds.  What this means is that if you attempt to re-post an article you've just posted, you'll get an error saying that you "can't make a post so soon after your last one."  IE, the article you had just attempted to post was actually succesfully posted even though it may not have looked like it. :s:


For the record I never click "submit" twice.

This "flood interval" may be helping in my case as I have made two recent posts, using one click of the submit button. A message appears:

Quote
You cannot make another post so soon after your last; please try again in a short while.


Then I go back into the thread and my post is there. (Just the one.)


Title: Re: Duplicate posts (unintentional multiple postings)
Post by: Great Rao on October 14, 2006, 06:51:35 PM
It's possible that the database has gotten much too large.

I noticed that we've kept all the posts ever made in this forum, back to February 2003.  I've enabled pruning, so that we now only keep the lastest two years of active threads.

The database is now smaller, we'll have to see if this makes a difference.

I was reluctant to turn on pruning, but I figure it's more important that the forum actually be functional.

:s:


Title: Re: Duplicate posts (unintentional multiple postings)
Post by: Permanus on October 15, 2006, 02:41:20 AM
There's a marked difference in performance today. For the better, I mean!


Title: Re: Duplicate posts (unintentional multiple postings)
Post by: MatterEaterLad on October 15, 2006, 02:04:16 PM
It is too bad to lose some old threads, since the discussions here are usually pretty educational and free from a lot of junk that hits lots of internet forums...

Any chance the pruned threads could one day be archived for read-only like the old DC message board threads?


Title: Re: Duplicate posts (unintentional multiple postings)
Post by: Great Rao on October 15, 2006, 08:37:53 PM
I did backup the database before pruning it, so in theory those old posts might be recoverable someday.

Performance was still pretty bad, so I installed a new forum package to see if that would help out any.  The old forum was phpBB, the new one is SMF.  This one has some spiffy new features like a calendar and "user karma"; plus moderators can now merge topics in addition to splitting them.

I'm still trying to figure out permisssions and all that though.  In theory, users should now be able to post.  If not, someone please drop me an email...




Title: Re: Duplicate posts (unintentional multiple postings)
Post by: MatterEaterLad on October 15, 2006, 10:15:17 PM
Well, as usual with new software, it looks a little unusual but it seems to be working OK for me on login.

Actually, I use a lot of phpBB forums, this one seemed to be getting wonky for awhile, double posts, not always noting the last post to a thread etc.  Hope this works out better.


Title: Re: Duplicate posts (unintentional multiple postings)
Post by: MatterEaterLad on October 15, 2006, 10:21:17 PM
Its also fairly impressive that a lot of preferences and icons followed over to the new software without going south...the look is a little blue-ish but I figure if you decide to stay with this software, it'll be adjusted a little.


Title: Re: Duplicate posts (unintentional multiple postings)
Post by: Super Monkey on October 15, 2006, 10:34:30 PM
This will get some getting use to, but I am glad to see the old PHP form go. Too many problems with that one.


Title: Re: Duplicate posts (unintentional multiple postings)
Post by: MatterEaterLad on October 15, 2006, 10:55:05 PM
Strangely, when I went back to the main page, even after you posted, I appeared as the last poster to this thread...ah, I don't know, might as well see how this all settles out....


Title: Re: Duplicate posts (unintentional multiple postings)
Post by: TELLE on October 15, 2006, 11:17:36 PM
This is a strange new world!

Still some kinks and disorientation but I'm sure I'll figure it out eventuially.

Too bad about those old threads --many posters who are not around from even the time I found this forum were still a great source of wisdom that I dipped into off and on (more off, admittedly).

I will never use even half of the new options for posting.