Bugged posts, for the admins

[immel]

When the forum slows down there's sometimes a kind of post that you makes that is there, but it doesn't show up as a new post. If you view the thread from the outside it wont say that the post is there as the latest post, but if you go inside, there it is.

I have made quite a number of those posts during when AHS is quite slow, I believe I shouldn't be posting at those moments but I've done so anyway.

This morning there was a slowdown, and I made one of those posts. When they post, they don't add to your post count, but if deleted they subtract from it. As the thread didn't display that there was a new post in it I decided to delete my post and post it again. As the forum didn't want to load I clicked the delete button several times, when the board loaded again, after several tries, my post count had dropped from 10,058 to 10,033.

This has happened several times before, I never thought about it and I never felt sure enough about what was causing the drops. Now that I am sure I thought you should know.

And no, it is not posts being moved to trash or the posting games board. I figured now that I should have been taking screenshots of my experimenting.

There's also another kind of bugged post that doesn't only happen when the board is slow, it happens now and then. These posts will on the other hand show up from the outside, as a new post. The thread lights up and it says the name of the last poster, when you go inside the thread the post is not there. The way to get those posts to show up is to make a new post, and then immediately delete it. Then the earlier post will magically appear. I'm not sure if these posts count towards your post count or not, they happen much more rarely so I didn't have the chance to experiment with them.


I might be completely off, but I've been thinking about those posts and if it can be effecting the performance of AHS, I imagine that posts not working as they should can be quite performance heavy, now I don't have any statistics to look at or anything so I am but guessing.

There's also been things going on with making threads. Usually when a thread fails to be posted there's nothing more to it, but two days ago I made one thread that failed, after that I was unable to make new threads for around 48 hours, while others was fully capable of making them.

A number of those posts popped up right now, when the board started slowing down again, and then it got really bad.

I don't know if they might be effecting anything, it just has me think back of when I hosted a game server and bugged characters caused similar problems... like I said I'm just guessing, if I don't get answers or am told off I'll keep on guessing and giving what information I can.